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hi all

got a 1989 30 hp evevinrude...electric start.

wen i go slow i can troll for hours...no stop,,,ok

wen i go fast sometime it stop(thats it)..then i start it and it goes...then stop again after a wil.....mmmmmmm

its runs ok............but sometime it just stop..


i got good gas

and good gas conexion.


what could be the probleme.....???

its weird.

its start very nice
and troll very nice.

even fast spead its ok...but sometime its stop... ,,could happen sometime 3 time in 2hour ride..

..its not for me.....i lend the boat to my father....i have no probleme wit the kayak... ..but i would love to help him..


joco.

Hi Joco, it sounds like something electrical is failing, but unfortunately these kind of problems are hard to find, sometimes they fail only when they warm up. You may have to use a timing light and see if you lose spark when it quits on you.
TLunge

,,,its stop,,but its start righ back realy easy...mmmm .

I dont want to get stuck far away on water wit it..

i dont want to bring it o the garage,,,at least not now.


joco.

joco sometimes it's better to bring it in because maybe this problem has been seen before like in 1989 when the motor was first bulit. Some of them have a problem with the stop switch not working properly or there were also the ones thats shut off from erratic spark setting off the SLOW warning for overheat, but you would never know that because very few readers have owned let alone have seen 30 or more of these engines, I have.
So keep trying to figure it out for yourself and maybe next year after you to take it to a shop.

joco

I would try the obvious things first. then maybe a trip to the docters wouldent be a bad idea.

It sounds like the coil pack is starting to fail. but maybe a new set of spark plugs will solve it.

Id put my money of the coil pack.

Consider trying another fuel tank. I had crack in the fuel uptake hose of the gas can one time. Slow speed allowed normal running but full trotle would bring on a problem when the gas in the can reached below the crack. It acted weird because the problem was so inconsistant until it got really bad. Good luck

I did try one more gas tank...

i went at the cottage and try it a cople off time and did not ad any probleme,,,so i dont no whats is wrong..

will go back next weekend and try again...and if i do get more prob...will change the spark plug...(but there new frome june,, ) and mabe the coil...will see.

thanks guys for the response.

joco.

I went to the cottage last weekend and try myself my boat....


at full speed.the motor speed go up and down...up down up down,,,always like that...

slow speed ok.

and it still stop sometime.


joco.

Hi Joco

Check the fuel line, there may be a small air leak.
We used to have an old 9.9 evinrude that would run like a top at idle and most times at full throttle.
It would all of a sudden start to slow down/speed up, and eventually it would cut out at full throttle then easily restart but never on idle or 1/2 throttle.,

It turned out to be the line inside the tank had developed a small hole. As the tank level lowered it would start to suck a little air.

Jocko,
I also agree with the fuel line and bulb combo. If these parts are not recent replace them they are cheap. That will give you a baseline to start troubleshooting the problem.
years ago i had the same symptoms and the line and bulb fixed it....larry

Thanks guys.....

I don't know if any of this helped Joco or not but I know it helped me.

Was having issues keeping the engine running on the weekend. I won't go into detail but needless to say when I went to the back the bulb was soft.... vent open, check, hum what is that... its was the fuel like. It appears the seal around were it connects to the fuel tank the o-rings was wore out.

Grabbed a new fuel line up and running 100%. Now I'm just going to get a replacement end for the old fuel line and keep it as a backup.

While sitting out on the water I got to thinking about these posts and sure enough the trouble shooting tips worked.