1998 Johnson 25HP 2 strokes

[lnguyen0929]

"Hello all,
My 1998 Johnson 2

"Hello all,
My 1998 Johnson 25HP could not give me good idle.
I already change the plugs,wires..start up ok after couple pulls but i could not keep it idle for shifting gears.Also sometimes it had back fire..Please advice what to do to fix this problem..Thanks in advance"

 

[gwg1]

"first thing is check compress

"first thing is check compression, but it sounds like you have a lean running engine which would = rebuild the carb."