Reply To: 1983 Evinrude 15 HP

[billw]

I’m glad you are making some headway. Just be aware that when you run the engine on a boat, at WOT, under a load, that is very different than muffs. With no load on the prop, you can achieve very high, even way TOO high, RPM and still not be really making the engine work very hard. Also, my experience has been that you can often have a decent-looking tell tale stream and still have the water tube grommets be restricted enough to cause a high speed overheat. I don’t mean to be a Debbie-Downer. I just want to make sure you don’t put it on a boat and go flying across the lake in total bliss until the engine locks up. Just pay attention, is all….

Long live American manufacturing!