89 Johnson 140 vro not revving

[smokeonthewater]

You ARE operating the throttle with the main lever and not the warmup lever right?

[thebottomfish]

Originally Posted by smokeonthewater

You ARE operating the throttle with the main lever and not the warmup lever right?

By warm up lever I assume you mean the fast idle lever that I lift up when cold and then push back in after a minute or so correct?
I am getting the above mentioned range of throttle opening when i put the boat in gear and push the throttle control handle all the way forward...the lever I believe you are referencing I don't see any movement at the throttle linkage engine side

[smokeonthewater]

Ok just wanted to make sure... The warm up lever also moves the throttle cable but wouldn't give you full range

Sounds like you either have a bunch of slop or something broken or assembled wrong.

[thebottomfish]

Considering it was fine last year before putting her away for the winter, I'll assume something is broken as I haven't touched any aspect of the throttle adjustment until this issue arose.
Thanks for the help I'll let you guys know the verdict!

[phatdaddy]

i wouldn't start adjusting any cables till i tried it with proper fire on all cyl.

[thebottomfish]

Well I got the misfire taken care of and after that I played with the throttle adjustment(thanks for the advice to mess with that after I got the misfire under control) and got it set up, what looks like, as good as it's going to get.
I found out that my control box has a unused port to wire a tachometer effortlessly...except the plug isn't empty.
I have a white wire coming out of it, hooked up to a circular object in the gunnel where another wire, blue/purple (kind of discolored) comes out of the control box and hooks in as well. That's it no other connections.
Any ideas?

[phatdaddy]

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