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lid wrote:
On 2/4/05, Del Cecchi wrote:

I have one of the 115. Been ok.

Sooooo yours hasn't had the extreme shakes/vibration at low rpm that I
described?
To be fair, the one I've used isn't a typical use outboard. It's a
yacht club chase boat (used mainly for teaching sailing as well as
race committee work) and spends most of its life idling in neutral or
idling in gear, then occasionally blasting off full tilt boogie for a
mile or two, then idling in neutral again for the longest. Also gets
pressed into service for towing on occasion. Maybe that explains why a
tune up just doesn't last more than one outing before it starts
shakin' the bejeebees outta the boat and passengers again.

Thanks to all up the thread for the responses though. I had been told
it was a fuel saving measure. I never did buy that one. Makes more
sense to me now.

Rick

It shakes, although I wouldn't consider it extreme. I troll sometimes
with it and it isn't annoying particularily. Whatever is being done in
the "tune up" sounds like it isn't particularily effective if it only
lasts a few hours. I wonder if there isn't some other problem that the
tune up makes go away for a short time, like a bad plug wire that a new
set of plugs cures for awhile. Or something like that.

del cecchi