I have a mid 80's 25hp merc that does not run real well at idle. It runs fine at top speed, but when I want to do some trolling at idle, it dies out. There is a knob on the front that is the choke that you turn to choke it. The motor only runs when it is about half choked. I don't really like dinking aroung with the carbs because they always seems to be worse after I have messed with them. Does anyone have any ideas on what the problem could be? Is there any good outboard repair shops in the Fargo-Moorhead area that I could trust to take it to? My dad took his boat in to a dealer for a spring tune up and all they did was run some motor tune up solution through it and it never did help. Now he uses about twice as much gas as he did before and the same amount of oil. That makes me kind of skeptical about bringing mine to a dealership.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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I have a mid 80's 25hp merc that does not run real well at idle. It runs fine at top speed, but when I want to do some trolling at idle, it dies out. There is a knob on the front that is the choke that you turn to choke it. The motor only runs when it is about half choked. I don't really like dinking aroung with the carbs because they always seems to be worse after I have messed with them. Does anyone have any ideas on what the problem could be? Is there any good outboard repair shops in the Fargo-Moorhead area that I could trust to take it to? My dad took his boat in to a dealer for a spring tune up and all they did was run some motor tune up solution through it and it never did help. Now he uses about twice as much gas as he did before and the same amount of oil. That makes me kind of skeptical about bringing mine to a dealership.
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