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My year so far has been littered with problems with my boat. When I crank it up, it's skipping, almost like the gas isn't getting to the motor all the time. When I go to run it, it'll run, and you can almost get to fill speed, but it'll skip every now and then, and it feels like your running aground, that's how hard it's skipping.. I think every thread I've posted is me having a problem with something! Lol. Any help is appreciated.

Year, model, horsepower?

Flightstopper wrote:Year, model, horsepower?

70 evinrude, I'm not sure the year, I know it's old

Sounds electrical to me. Maybe a coil pack breaking up.

Or your dogs on the gears in the lower unit are going back. Mine does that if I don't hold the shift lever forward. While running if I go all out it'll feel like I hit something with the prop of I don't hold that lever.

It doesn't do it when not in gear tho

Goldfish wrote:Or your dogs on the gears in the lower unit are going back. Mine does that if I don't hold the shift lever forward. While running if I go all out it'll feel like I hit something with the prop of I don't hold that lever.

It doesn't do it when not in gear tho

This happens in gear as well... It seems like gas is just shutting off randomly, but I've looked up the symptoms, some people say maybe a power pack? But what I was thinking was maybe a clogged carbuerator or fuel
FIlter?

Pretty much the first thing I do when I get a new motor is pick up a shop manual for it. It will give you troubleshooting tips and help diagnose problems as well as how to fix them.

That does sound like a power pack. If it was the carb it would not skip it would bog. What is the model #

outboardman wrote:That does sound like a power pack. If it was the carb it would not skip it would bog. What is the model #

Nobody listens to Capt.

Had an identical issue with an OMC 70 h.p. a few years back, and kept thinking it was a gas issue as well. Turned out to be one of the wires coming off of the coil, causing it to intermittently miss. Like yours, it would run, but was skipping and sounded like shit. Had to have a mechanic trace the fire, and there was a break in wire, a few inches away from the coil, under the insulation. So if it's not the coil itself, could very well be the same issue.

capt1972 wrote:

outboardman wrote:That does sound like a power pack. If it was the carb it would not skip it would bog. What is the model #

Nobody listens to Capt.

Hey capt, 70 evinrudes don't have coil packs. They have ignition coils and power packs. Newer mercs have coilpacks, that's a ignition coil and a pack(Switch box) combined into one.

Kerry, start it up in the dark and see if you can see any spark jumping to ground. That will show a bad ignition wire or I have seen spark jump right out of a ignition coil the wire hooks to.

outboardman wrote:

capt1972 wrote:

outboardman wrote:That does sound like a power pack. If it was the carb it would not skip it would bog. What is the model #

Nobody listens to Capt.

Hey capt, 70 evinrudes don't have coil packs. They have ignition coils and power packs. Newer mercs have coilpacks, that's a ignition coil and a pack(Switch box) combined into one.

Kerry, start it up in the dark and see if you can see any spark jumping to ground. That will show a bad ignition wire or I have seen spark jump right out of a ignition coil the wire hooks to.

Da Fuck?! You knew what I meant didn't ya?