"Cold Natured" Motor?

[ranimated]

My Mariner 150 is the same way. I wouldn't recommend trimming it up because without water to cool it, damage can occur very quickly. A few suggestions:

Make sure your battery is a "cranking amp" battery NOT a regular deep cycle.

Make sure your "cranking amp" battery has more than 1,000 marine cold cranking amps.

Buy some cups to feed water to your cooling unit and start the battery at home first.

And for emergencies, carry jumper cables in your boat in case you need to borrow power from your trolling batteries.

[Devils Horse]

I have an 89 'Rude 200xp engine and here are some things that help me. Make sure the fuel bulb is pumped up good. If it doesn't start pretty quick give the bulb a few more pumps. Keep good clean spark plugs and fuel filter. When starting the engine make sure it's trimmed all the way down flat or it'll flood out pretty easy.

[jfw]

Listen to Devils HOrse he knows what he is talking about ,The only thing I can add is maybe going up one heat range in plugs


My 85 hp Johnson was hard to start las Sat @ Nolin 'course I had to scrape ice off the seats that day??
ONce it started and ran it was fine .

The tip about making sure the motor is all the way trimmed down is very important

[Chefdave]

I had a Yamaha 200 a few years back, From the day I got it, it was "Cold Natured" even in summer. linkage on the carbs that open and close the butterflies was off a little, so I had that fixed, as well as a rebuild on the carbs. but it still didn't want to start very easily, mind you this is new power head. Anyway, I never got it sorted out completely. In fact, for a year or so, I had to take the cowling off and spray starter fluid into the carbs just to start the pig. Anyway, Devil's horse is right, you want to make sure the motor is trimmed down at least level to make sure the fuel doesn't have to fight gravity to get to the motor. I now have a 95 Evinrude 225, and it seems whenever I have trouble starting it, all I usually need to do is remember to pump up the bulb a little or make sure the motor is down enough. Good luck with it!