525 hitting 5900 rpms
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525 hitting 5900 rpms
Why would my engine be hitting 5900rpms? It reached it quite easily, but I didn't really seem to lose any power. I had a full tank, three guys on board and was peaking at 71, it was about 102 out and the lake water temp had to be close to 90.
Wouldn't the rev limiter be kicking in?
Wouldn't the rev limiter be kicking in?
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Easy to check the tach. Grab an inductive pickup tach and clip it to a plug wire to verify the accuracy of the boat's tach. I had to do this recently as at idle my tach showed 800 RPM but shop tach showed 650 RPM. Just make sure the lead is long enough to snake through the hatch so you can run WOT with someone sitting in the back seat reading the shop tach.
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Easy to check the tach. Grab an inductive pickup tach and clip it to a plug wire to verify the accuracy of the boat's tach. I had to do this recently as at idle my tach showed 800 RPM but shop tach showed 650 RPM. Just make sure the lead is long enough to snake through the hatch so you can run WOT with someone sitting in the back seat reading the shop tach.