1996 Evinrude 15 pull start. Got to the landing and the motor won?t start. First time ever. Started up a couple weeks ago just fine. Since then, I?ve turned the idle adjust knob on the tiller. Could that be preventing the motor from seating by chance? How do I find out where that knob should be? Doesn?t appear to have any stop points turning it left or right?

Thanks for the help

Is the deadman switch on the end of the tiller? I had one fail.

Dave Diefenderfer
Manassas, VA

"Once you set out to build a boat, throw away your square. And if you work on her after she's launched, throw away your level." author unknown

Used my superior mechanical skills and knowledge and got the motor running. We paddled out to the hunting spot and paddled back to the landing. Thought I would try and fix the motor on the spot. Took off the motor cover (which is about all I can do) and when I went to pull start to motor I happened to look down and my feet and the hose wasn?t plugged into the tank. It was plugged in when launching and when the motor wouldn?t start, I checked that both ends were plugged in.

So my guess is the hose on the tank end wasn?t pushed far enough in.

Still have questions on the idle adjustment at the end of the tiller. How does one determine we middl

That adjustment is strictly for idle RPM speed. You should be startig your motor with the throttle cracked open a bit (which should put it above the idle adjustment). Once the engine is warm and running just turn the knob at tiller handle end, to maintain what ever speed you wish your engine idle at. It should be high enough to reliably run with out stalling out, but low enough it doesn't jar the gears too much when shifting into gear.

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Take care, Huntindave McCann SHELL ROCK IA. ,,,,,, "As sailors grow older, the wiser ones move to smaller boats." Thomas Firth Jones, Multihull Voyaging