Evinrude scheduled maintenance.

[mastreb]

My engine was directly connected from the time I bought the boat until about a year afterwards when I put the Perko switch in (that's how the factory does it), and we have no "season" here so it's always connected to the battery.

Never ran the battery down in that course of time, but then it's also never gone more than three months without being used.

Matt

[dxg4848]

One more thing. I noticed some bubbling from the propeller area at idle when I was up in Geogian bay on the weekend. This has been going on for a while but I forgot about it. Didn't affect performance. After some research on the etec forum I found out that this may be caused by a clogged idle relief filter (or some refer to it as muffler foam). The filter is located under the oil reservoir under a plate. I picked up a new filter and gasket yesterday and replaced it. The old filter was extremely dirty. I'll have to check if the bubbling stops when I have it in the water this weekend.

Changed mine today - both foam and gasket. The foam was very dirty. The total cost was only $12.00 and took about 40 minutes . And I actually enjoyed the process, it was more fun than work.