Re: RDE-17 Johnson tuning issues

[David Stanton]

quote Buccaneer:

Thanks Dave, I won’t have much time tomorrow to work on it, but
I may pop the flywheel back off just to satisfy my curiosity and
make sure a wire on the mag plate didn’t break or get ripped off.
It’s kind of aggravating trying to tune an outboard when
you can’t even put it in gear to warm it up!

I worked on a ’59 35 HP Lark today that killed when I put it in gear and gave it any throttle at all above idle on a boat. Had it idling good in a tank, and idled good on the boat at low RPMs. Had to readjust the points a couple times to get it to idle good – maybe because I used Sierra points. After that, the culprit was the hi speed jet was set too lean. I found that by trial and error, restarting several times. The high speed adjustment is very touchy on these and sometimes if you are off 1/8 turn, they run terrible.
Good Luck!
Dave