140-4cylinder or 200V6

[Blue_Runner]

Its all relative to how fast you want or need to go.

If propped right you should be able to get 30 + on the top end. If you had your heart set on 40, you will definitely be under powered.

I believe the center consoles are lighter than the cuddy, so that would help out too. I had an older cuddy model w/ 140 johnson. Top end was around 28ish but 1) my controls were questionable 2) had no gauges to see if I was hitting max RPM 3) and probably not the optimum prop.


Good luck!

Blue

[mckinnonfishing]

he told me it was a four blade prop. Is there a BIG change from 3? Im not going to be running offshore or anything just in and around the bay and nearshore.

[cterrebonne]

is the 140 a looper or cross?

[mckinnonfishing]

ew im not sure This was just a brief conversation with a man from my church. I'll ask him this weekend. What other questions should I ask him?

[THEFERMANATOR]

Find out what year engine it is. I aint to far from you if you need some help with her, I'm only about 20-25 miles to the north of TAMPA in old Z-hills. If it is a cross-flow engine it will do the job, but very thirsty. The looper will do it better with less fuel usage. Another thing to remember is up until 84 ALL of the JOHNNY-RUDES were flywheel rated, in 85 the 120/140 ooper V4's started propshaft ratings. And in 86 most all of them were propshaft rated. What is wrong with your current 200?

[spareparts]

some one said 140 Johnrude, I knew it wouldn't take long for ferm to come out

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by spareparts

some one said 140 Johnrude, I knew it wouldn't take long for ferm to come out

I likes my loopers.

[spareparts]

i had a 120 on my Mitchell, ran great, but I had one problem with it that I could never figure out, had the same problem on a freinds 120 also. At idle, I could never get it to hit even on all four, you could pull the plug wires and the cylinders would drop different amounts, # 4 wouldn't even make hardly any difference, went thru the carbs numerous times, set the linkages per the manual, double and triple checked the linkage and settings, then went back and set the linkage so it would idle, ended up taking the idle speed knob all the way out to set the idle timing up enough so it would idle in gear. I checked the reeds, OK,made sure no one had mixed up the airbleeds and jets, spark and compresion were ok. Thought it was just mine, till my buddies did the same thing, even swap carbs from another motor and it made no difference. I never did get in to changing idle jet sizes(did'nt have enough to go experimenting). Got it to run good enough, but was never completely satisfied with it at idle.

[mckinnonfishing]

whatever Im just going to sell it, 2000 first come