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I apologize for the lengthy thread in advance but I am hoping to find answers to the problem I’ve been dealing with the last few months. Back in July I was fishing an all nighter. All was fine until about midnight I went to make a move and the boat didn’t want to get up on plane. The motor felt weaker than normal. Then all at once it’s like something would kick in and it would be fine. Next couple time I tried to make a run it would do the same thing, be hard to get up on plane and if it did it’s like it didn’t have full power until something would eventually kick in. So that night I decided to get closer to the weigh and just play it safe vs being broke down way down the lake. Well I took it to a guy my family and several friends know and trust to work on motors. He said everything came back to the stator. So we put a new stator on it. He gave me the old stator to look at, sure enough it was burnt BAD. First couple trips with the new one no problem at all. Then couple weeks ago it started to do the same thing all over again. Took the Cowl off and could see the stator had been getting hot again. So I decided to drop it off at a local shop after our last all nighter of the year on the way home and not bother our family friend seeing he is semi retired now. The mechanic I spoke to there let me know first thing that I shouldn’t have a a deep cycle marine battery for my cranking battery. He said he would bet that was my problem. I had a hard time understanding that seeing I haven’t had any problems before and had the boat almost 8 years. I called midweek last week to see if they had a chance to look at it. He let me know he put a regular cranking battery on it and the stator voltage regulators and everything we’re doing what they should also that all the grounds were good and they were going to take it to the lake the next day and run it to try and experience it first hand. All I could do is hope a new battery would solve my problem. Well the next day they called said they took it to the lake it ran like a dream it didn’t do what I was telling them. (Note here the mechanic didn’t take it another garage hand did). Any way I pick it up yesterday, for the battery and labor I’m out another $400 plus the stator replacement prior. Only to take it directly to the lake and it do the same thing. It don’t do it every time but this is what I noticed when it does. When I first took off yesterday it was hard to get on plane, and I when it did I ran a good ways pushing it hard, I could only get it up to about 43mph then whatever it is that kicks in kicked in I was at 52 in no time. Next couple times I get up on plane and go no problem, but the next couple times back to being weak and not missing power from something. Please help if you can.. thanks
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