Pro kicker dying

[blurangerstu]

I know this has been brought up before but cant find any info on exactly what mine is doing. It will run at a higher idle but when I back off the gas it keeps dying. Then its a little hard to get started and the same thing. I dont have a tach on it so I dont know the RPM's. It seems to run fine in nuetral but not in gear.

[feklar]

Its hard to diagnose with that, but here is where I would start.

Run a can of seafoam through it, fairly strong
New sparkplugs.
Decarbon

After this:
Go through carb possbly rebuild


After this:
dunno, take to a professional?

[Crankbaiter]

If you have open water and your able to run this motor now, here is an unscientific suggestion.....

next time you run it try trimming the motor up slightly so it is very level with the water and not on an angle which is ussaly the case because the back of the boat sits lower in the water due to the weight of the main motor.

I know this sounds hokey and it is not a cure but if it does begin to run better being "level" in the water it may be a sign of a float issue and thats at least starting point.

We have had a few Pro kicker that were very senitive to being level.

Good Luck.

[Stratos219]

sounds like the carb. mine did the same thing. carb rebuild did the trick

[Spendit]

My '07 was set too lean - emissions........do a search here, drill plug and turn 1/8th back - see if it does the trick.....all other suggestions tried on mine (level, sea foam...) best answer was to richen up the mixture for low speed running

[Eric_CO]

What elevation are you at?

I had to drill out the brass cap and adjust the idle mixture screw. I also had to re-attach the choke to the choke pull switch. It came off and the choke was open, so you might look for that too.

[blurangerstu]

Well I cleaned the carb and it seems to be running better although it looked pretty clean to me. I will see next week when I get it on the water how it does thanks for the help everyone. By the way can any one tell me where that brass plug is that I can drill out? I think it may already have been taken out.

[T Mac]

(Before I retired 2008)...as a dealer, we replaced a lot of almost new Merc "Pro-Kicker" fuel pumps that were doing that. We replaced them with new Yamaha T-9.9 water cooled fuel pumps and it solved the problem. That was a couple of years ago ...but, they bolted right up and did fix the problem.

[blurangerstu]

T Mac where do I find one and do you know how much one would cost me?