Anybody got any tips on pullstarting a yamaha 100hp outboard.

The boat's currently stalled and the fishing trip is receding ever so fast
into the distance ;-)

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Dylan

First, find a 300 lb Gorilla...


"Tovey Family" wrote in message
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Anybody got any tips on pullstarting a yamaha 100hp outboard.

The boat's currently stalled and the fishing trip is receding ever so fast
into the distance ;-)

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Dylan

"Capt. Matt" wrote in message
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First, find a 300 lb Gorilla...

That would be me... 250 lbs. actually, but I have always been able to pull
start our OMC V-4's with the emergency rope and manual choke. Use maximum
warm-up advance, and START IN NEUTRAL, with the key "on". Feather the
manual choke while reducing the warm-up setting after it starts... this is
easier of course with two people. The newer V-4's have the enrichment
circuit with a release valve instead of the choke - I don't know how the
Yamaha is set up. Also, if it's cold out, it just wont be easy...

Rob
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Trainfan1 wrote:

"Capt. Matt" wrote in message
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First, find a 300 lb Gorilla...

That would be me... 250 lbs. actually, but I have always been able to pull
start our OMC V-4's with the emergency rope and manual choke. Use maximum
warm-up advance, and START IN NEUTRAL, with the key "on". Feather the
manual choke while reducing the warm-up setting after it starts... this is
easier of course with two people. The newer V-4's have the enrichment
circuit with a release valve instead of the choke - I don't know how the
Yamaha is set up. Also, if it's cold out, it just wont be easy...

Rob
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The solution is obvious. Drill a hole in the flywheel and bolt on a
beautiful, lathe-turned knuckle-buster wood starting knob, like some
outboards from 90 years ago had. Not only would trying to start your
motor by pushing and pulling the knob around build up your muscles, but
you'd be exposed to all sorts of colorful language as various animate
and inanimate objects got whanged by the spinning knob and flywheel once
the motor started.

Real manly men would have it no other way.





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"Tovey Family" wrote in message
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Anybody got any tips on pullstarting a yamaha 100hp outboard.

The boat's currently stalled and the fishing trip is receding ever so fast
into the distance ;-)

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Dylan



My 200hp Mercury Salt Water Classic has an emergency pull start rope.
Hope I don't have to use it but glad its there.

My thought on pull ropes is if you haven't fixed the starting problem that
drained the battery in the first place the rope is useless.
It might be nandy if you just killed the battery with your trolling motor and
you have a "first pull" engine. I did find out the hard way that if you simply
have an open cell in the battery one of these new EFI engines is still pretty
much dead. With an open cell the charging voltage quickly exceeds the over volt
setting in the computer and it shuts the engine down. I suppose if you were
really in trouble you could turn on everything electrical on the boat, run idle
speed and hope that loads the charging system down to an acceptable level. The
running lights were not enough on my 60 EFI merc. (although I didn't really
experiment much). A neighbor who owed me a tow came by about the time I knew I
was in trouble.