need advise

keepitgreen05 · #1 03-12-2012, 09:13 PM

i have a 87 steplift with a few problems i want to rewire it as it is like a rats nest under the panel. also i have a 87 johnson 140 vro on it i took it to the shop and they said i fouled the plugs and some silioned was bad 900.00 later i brought it home and the lilt is now working the battery gauge goes down when i hit the button but nothing happens. now i have a motor that i don't even know if it was fixed and a boat that needs to be rewired and suggestion also i want to run the plumbing to make the fish box in the middle of the boat a live well and install a sounder/gps and suggestion

RWilson2526 · #2 03-13-2012, 02:53 AM

Well you seem to be all over the place with the post.... it seems your tilt trim is stilll not working?. My advice is to forget the baitwell relocation, gps and rewiring (assuming the important things like navigation lights are working) and get the boat up and running and in the water.

I looked at some of your old posts and seemed that you were thiinking your engine needed a rebuild so if you got out for $900 dollars with a working engine maybe you did alright....give us some details on what was fixed for $900.00.

Did you do the things that Tsubaki suggested in this past thread?
http://www.wellcraftv20.com/communit...ad.php?t=16887

Destroyer · #3 03-13-2012, 09:47 AM

I'd do everything that RW just said, but before I did anything else I'd make sure that the engine was ok. You said you hit the button and nothing happens, so if it was me I'd first hot wire the starter and make sure the engine turns over, then put muffs on her and try and start her before anything else. Once I know that the engine is ok then I'd proceed with all the other stuff.

keepitgreen05 · #4 03-13-2012, 12:58 PM

she will turn over and run. before i took it to the shop when she was under load it had a problem so i used a can of sea foam and she ran fine so i took it out to a river and ran it and she ran fine then so the next day i went to the bay and it ran fine until i stopped to fish then it would not stay running i had to unbolt the cover to the carbs and spray the carbs with fuel in order to make it to land. i sent it in to a show and they said it was a solenoid and fouled plugs so i paid the money and took my boat home when i got home i hit the button to lower the motor and nothing.

Destroyer · #5 03-13-2012, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by keepitgreen05

she will turn over and run. before i took it to the shop when she was under load it had a problem so i used a can of sea foam and she ran fine so i took it out to a river and ran it and she ran fine then so the next day i went to the bay and it ran fine until i stopped to fish then it would not stay running i had to unbolt the cover to the carbs and spray the carbs with fuel in order to make it to land. i sent it in to a show and they said it was a solenoid and fouled plugs so i paid the money and took my boat home when i got home i hit the button to lower the motor and nothing.

I'd have been more thinking along the line that it was fouled carbs... did you have a filter on the gas line? Fouled plugs will stay fouled until replaced or cleaned.. The likelyhood of they're firing just by spraying gas into the carbs is not really high. I'm a little confused though... did you say that she's running now?

tsubaki · #6 03-13-2012, 04:39 PM

Me too be confused.
green, can you clarify a little?

keepitgreen05 · #7 03-13-2012, 09:23 PM

ok sorry guys.....she runs now i dont think it runs good but it runs it sounds a little rough....i get alot of white smoke. i ran it today for about 5 min in a trash can full of water and at first when i throtteled up it didnt seem to want to go up. but the tilt still does not work

Destroyer · #8 03-13-2012, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by keepitgreen05

ok sorry guys.....she runs now i dont think it runs good but it runs it sounds a little rough....i get alot of white smoke. i ran it today for about 5 min in a trash can full of water and at first when i throtteled up it didnt seem to want to go up. but the tilt still does not work

Pull a compression test on the engine...make sure that's ok... then go back to wherever you paid $900 and tell them that the tilt still does not work and they need to fix it at THEIR expense since you already paid them to fix it once. Still sounds like the carbs to me, but I'm not a full time mechanic so I can be wrong... but for $900 that thing should be purring like a kitten in my book

keepitgreen05 · #9 03-13-2012, 09:41 PM

i am taking it to a guy on monday i will have him rebuild the carbs