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PostPosted: Sun May 13, 2012 8:27 pm 
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Hello,
Today was my first day out with my new to me 2000 H180 Fish & Ski with Johnson 150 OB. This is my first boat and learning a lot. I've looked around and can't find an answer, Where should the WOT RPM's be? Today at wide open, they were only @ 4100 on the tach. The prop on it is a 14 1/4 x 19 aluminum. Granted, the lake was pretty choppy so I couldn't get planed out well. But before the wife complained, it was at 45 on the GPS. :roll: For load, there was 2 adults, 2 teenagers, 1/2 tank of gas, cooler and our fishing gear.

This sound about right? Or should I look at a different prop?


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PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:40 am 
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The motor should turn close to 5000 rpms at WOT.

The 19" pitch prop is what Four Winns originally paired the boat/motor with.

45 mph with that load in less than ideal conditions seems about right.

I'd do a few more WOT runs in better conditions and a lighter load to see if the rpms are still low. If they are, get a new tach...

The motor has a 1.86:1 gear ratio and with a 19" pitch prop, it would need to turn a lot faster than 4100 rpms to get 45 mph. Assuming minimal prop slip it is probably turning right around 5000 rpm in reality.

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PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2012 9:58 pm 
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Roger that, thank you very much for the response. Hopefully this upcoming weekend will be better on the lake. Unfortunately, it's too far to give it a shot during the week.


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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:25 am 
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Love the outboard my next boat will definitely have an outboard on the back and a self bailing hull.


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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 12:10 pm 
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Yay! Another H180 F&S with an outboard! We are catching up in numbers (slowly)!

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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 2:49 pm 
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FWIW I have an H170 F&S with a Johnson 115 OB. Came from the dealer with a 19 inch pitch prop. Never could get to target RPM. Now with 17 inch pitch I get right at 5000 at WOT. Top speed is totally the same (43mph) and I don't notice any difference in hole shot.

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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:05 pm 
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Thanks for the welcome. I'm loving the boat and real happy with the outboard. With this being a little older boat, is there any suggestions on anything I should look to fix before they break?


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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:36 pm 
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The gauges will break or read wrong. Plus you can't forget the goodies to install like a killer sound system, gps, vhf, etc

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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 1:29 am 
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Ric,

Thanks for the imput. It looks like my guages may need an update, at least the Tach anyway. What are a good but not too expensive gauge for the boat? Something that will go with the dash?


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:30 pm 
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I finally got to get her out on a calm lake and run her. Ended up with 46 on the GPS at 5100 rpm. I'm pretty happy with that!!
But then this weekend it started acting strange. Anything over @3k rpm and the temp would drop to unreadable on the gauge and the engine alarm would go off. But if I dropped it to idle the temp would rise and alarm would turn off. Has a constant tell tale stream. So I'm confused.
Does anyone have any idea? Sensor maybe?


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