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Monday 5/11/10 I emailed Tony at Bucks island, telling him i need some reassuranc that if i brought my boat back to him he would work with me somehow on the labor. I kind of thought he may be concerned that his reputation was on the line with me, and would tell me something to make me feel good about bringing it back up there to him. The email went unanswered and tuesday at 1:50p I called and left a message for Tony to give me a call ( never returned). I decided to ride up there after work and see if I could track him down. I did in fact find him, and we talked a few minutes and he agreed to only charge me for 1 hour of time no matter how long it took to diagnose the problem. WHAT ! i was thinking my boat has been here 6 months and not been diagnosed ! At this point i was as lost as ever. My thoughts were, I allready have 4.85 hrs of labor that cost me 385.58, and none of that was diagnosing the original problem...( Hard to crank and running rough intermittantly ) > in the interest of fairness, they did do some maintenance, fuel filter, spark plugs, gear case oil, replace oil tank, install a new prop, install a new starter. So it aint like they billed me for nothing, just didn't ever diagose the original complaint! The last starter was put on, after I asked the technician to get the factory involved, he said the factory would start by saying it needed a Evinrude starter put on it, to wich i said " Put one on it and when that don't work, call the factory". well the starter was ordered on 4/15 and shipped on 4/27 so i had yet another delay. It was installed, the boat taken to the test tank and run for a little over two minutes and started twice without incident. I went and picked it up looking forward to a nice four day weekend with my boat back in tip top shape 5/6/10 . In the approximatly 20 minute ride to the house it ran rough at least once but did crank twice, but when it idled for about 3-4 minutes at the dock it started running rough and quit. Did not crank again until sunday night.
In a post dated 9/19/08 i was starting to have and address the same issues as now. I was hearing a lot of folks talking about the bad gas that had been circulating, So i started treating the gas to address this issue, wich seemed to help a little.
Even that far back someone suggested "Cat Boat" (cat house marine)
Well last night i carried my boat to cat house marine, and finally met Steve. while i was there I think we did reslove part of the cranking issues by removing 5 ft of Bennington battery cables. one of wich had a nick in it.
THANKS STEVE !!!!!!!!!
NOw I just have to figure out what direction to take, it seems the whole problem starterd while the Evinrude was still under waranty, wich according to the letter i got today expired on 7/12/09. GEEZ man how did I miss that one ?
I sure wish i could get some help from Evinrude somehow.
Steve, I did put the boat in today, and it started perfectly, and ran up just fine. I played around running it as normal as I could ,about 5-6 minutes at 1800 rpm then up to 3000 rpm and for the first 15 minutes or so it ran just fine. Then all at once my old symptoms of rough running were back. I threw the throttle to it just in case it was loading up on fuel, but it continued to run rough for another 2-3 minutes, I returned to idle and turned it off. in the past it would not spin fast enough to crank at this point, but today it spins fast enough to crank, and does, but will not idle. Its like an older engine that you have to rev up and throw it in gear real quick before it dies, to get going. Whats your thougts on that now that oyu've looked her in the eye ?
I'm struggling now with, trying another dealer, or exactly what. I know Steve has said he is available to help any way he can
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