Hello All,
New member here and hoping to get some feedback from the group. I have a 17ft Challenger bass boat with a 1997 DT115 EFI outboard motor. Have owned this boat and motor for nearly 20 years and have always taken great care of it. It has always run great and been problem free... until recently. The problem that I’m having is that it will get up on a plane and run great for about 2 or 3 minutes and then the engine shuts down and has to sit for about 20 minutes before it can be restarted. Once it restarts it’s the same thing over again. I did a compression check on all 4 cylinders and found that cylinders 1, 3 & 4 were all at 90 PSI but cylinder 2 was at zero. I’m being told by a local marina that based on the results of the compression test... the engine is bad and needs to be replaced. Is that right? Just like that it goes from being a great motor to a pile of scrap? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
New member here and hoping to get some feedback from the group. I have a 17ft Challenger bass boat with a 1997 DT115 EFI outboard motor. Have owned this boat and motor for nearly 20 years and have always taken great care of it. It has always run great and been problem free... until recently. The problem that I’m having is that it will get up on a plane and run great for about 2 or 3 minutes and then the engine shuts down and has to sit for about 20 minutes before it can be restarted. Once it restarts it’s the same thing over again. I did a compression check on all 4 cylinders and found that cylinders 1, 3 & 4 were all at 90 PSI but cylinder 2 was at zero. I’m being told by a local marina that based on the results of the compression test... the engine is bad and needs to be replaced. Is that right? Just like that it goes from being a great motor to a pile of scrap? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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