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Dave Brown Dave Brown is offline
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Default Merc 1150 runs really sweet, but have to squirt gas in carbsto start...help!

Clams Canino wrote:

Starting procedure is likely the problem.
You gotta nearly flood them to start them - SOP.


As crazy as this sounds, it is exactly the way to start these 'towers of
power". The problem is the size of the holes in the choke plates and one
of these days I'm gonna solder them shut to see if that doesn't cure it
on this (and many other older) Merc models.



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Dave Brown
Brown's Marina Ltd
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