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How important is it to make sure to you calibrate your spark plugs out of the box. I'm speaking to the spacing. Does anyone do this?

Mornin Beef wrote:How important is it to make sure to you calibrate your spark plugs out of the box. I'm speaking to the spacing. Does anyone do this?

I never have

Very important, to big a gap you could burn holes in the top of your piston

Ain't nobody got time for that

jehler wrote:Ain't nobody got time for that

Ha! I recommend you gap your plugs also.

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Mornin Beef wrote:How important is it to make sure to you calibrate your spark plugs out of the box. I'm speaking to the spacing. Does anyone do this?

Everytime

Biscuits. Better get into this damn manual now. Thanks for making me nervous everyone.

Mornin Beef wrote:How important is it to make sure to you calibrate your spark plugs out of the box. I'm speaking to the spacing. Does anyone do this?

Very. In addition to damaging stuff, I've never had a motor run well with poorly gapped plugs. Often, it won't run at all.

My out board runs on the souls of dead fish. I better catch some soon!

Bootlipkiller wrote:My out board runs on the souls of dead fish. I better catch some soon!

QL77JC4

jehler wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:My out board runs on the souls of dead fish. I better catch some soon!

QL77JC4

Say what?

His autocorrect is really fucked up now.

I think that's what plugs your motor takes, I was a Johnson mechanic for a few years, when you posted I thought of your Johnson and that number came out, couldn't control it

jehler wrote:when you posted I thought of your Johnson

c'mon, somebody's gotta run with this.

Thought of his Johnson, huh?

Beat me to it

:):)

banknote wrote:

jehler wrote:when you posted I thought of your Johnson

c'mon, somebody's gotta run with this.

i saw it before I hit send, I got to say I'm a little disappointed nobody hit that softball out of the park

I've never had a plug at the right gap outta the box

jehler wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:My out board runs on the souls of dead fish. I better catch some soon!

QL77JC4

Isn't that what most Johnson/e-rudes run from 1980-2000?

BrewGUN wrote:

jehler wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:My out board runs on the souls of dead fish. I better catch some soon!

QL77JC4

Isn't that what most Johnson/e-rudes run from 1980-2000?

Even older, at least if the stuff before the JC4 doesn't change anything.

Don't you argue with Johnny Boomerang.

assateague wrote:Don't you argue with Johnny Boomerang.

nobody and I mean nobody could not fix a boat like Johnny boomerang

jehler wrote:

assateague wrote:Don't you argue with Johnny Boomerang.

nobody and I mean nobody could not fix a boat like Johnny boomerang

HAHA Johnny boomerang....I got a friend i call Mr. Meltdown.

Flightstopper wrote:

BrewGUN wrote:

jehler wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:My out board runs on the souls of dead fish. I better catch some soon!

QL77JC4

Isn't that what most Johnson/e-rudes run from 1980-2000?

Even older, at least if the stuff before the JC4 doesn't change anything.

Yep, I have a couple sets of new plugs. Gapped and stored on the boat along with water pump, fuel pump, spare impellers, props and about everything you could possibly break. EXCEPT A STARTER FOR A 9.9/15 hp Evinrude/Johnson.
Nobody ever thinks about my Johnson.

aunt betty wrote:

Flightstopper wrote:

BrewGUN wrote:

jehler wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:My out board runs on the souls of dead fish. I better catch some soon!

QL77JC4

Isn't that what most Johnson/e-rudes run from 1980-2000?

Even older, at least if the stuff before the JC4 doesn't change anything.

Yep, I have a couple sets of new plugs. Gapped and stored on the boat along with water pump, fuel pump, spare impellers, props and about everything you could possibly break. EXCEPT A STARTER FOR A 9.9/15 hp Evinrude/Johnson.
Nobody ever thinks about my Johnson.

The springs in mine let go on me more than once. Good thing you can cut the cord and wrap it around the flywheel. A spare cord with a handle would be nice somewhere in that kit.

Got that tied around the brace where the motor bolts onto the transom. Also have spare recoil assembly in my toolbox. Ask Insaneduck... he hunts with me.

WANTED: Starter for 80's vintage Evinrude 9.9/15 HP

aunt betty wrote:Got that tied around the brace where the motor bolts onto the transom. Also have spare recoil assembly in my toolbox. Ask Insaneduck... he hunts with me.

WANTED: Starter for 80's vintage Evinrude 9.9/15 HP

I'm sure my aunt could get you one, but really, those things pull start so easy why bother?



I second the keeping a spare rope to wrap around the flywheel. You know how I know how to do that? Cartoons. Looney tunes were made back when that was how you had to do it, so watching them wrap the cord, then pull, then wrap the cord, then pull, then wrap the cord and pull made me realize what the notches on the flywheel were for.

The 15 are notorious hard starters, the 9.9's should start 2nd pull