Skully
Well-known member
Well all I can say is sometimes you take a shot at a deal and it works out and some don't. So this is my story. I guy was advertising a 30 hp johnson with controls on craogslist so I make him a pitch for a trade. I go to his house to check out the motor. It has 140 psi in both cylinder and spark good spark. I hook up my battery and gas and try to start it gas in carb starter won't turn but slow. I get it to sputter and do the deal.. I bring it home pull the starter take it apart cleaned the rust and crud out and she turns like new. electric primer giving me heartach so I take it aprt clean it and find it was assebled wrong so now it works. Bring the boat to the lake and its spitting gas out the carb. Back to the house pull the carb pull the intake and wallah broken reed valve mo problem replace reed valve. Back to the lake fire her up and bammm 28 mph and tearin up the lake oh yea sweeet victory.. And its a long shaft so I had a transom elevator fabricated for 55 buck all aluminum.. less then 100.00 plus the trade and this 1985 30 hp is worth some bucks but she's a keeper. The moral of the story is this never give up if man made it it will break but if man made it man can fix it..There are tons of such motors out there that people don;t know how to deal with... grab some tools go online read and you can do it. Do you think these marine machanics can keep all that info in there heads nooooo they have to read and hit a book well i don't make 90.00 an hour and i have a hard time paying someone that and i learned how to read too. My spelling may leave much to be desired but hey the motor runs...