On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:05:30 -0500, totem wrote:

wrote:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:36:11 GMT, "Clams Canino"
wrote:

"Dave Brown" wrote in message
news:m4SdnQRyRYdB_7jbnZ2dnUVZ_rDinZ2d@wtccommunica tions.ca...
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.
Choke plates are plastic on the towers. (and I think solid)

The throttle butterflys have holes.

-W


Hey, thanks, guys. I'll pass this along to my Dad. He has
the boat down on Johnathon Creek. He says that the engine will start
within an hour after having run it for a bit; but, it won't start
cold. The folks at the repair shop were clueless (go figure).

Regards

Look for pin holes or other air leaks into the fuel line, primer bulb,
etc. It sounds like the fuel is draining back down the line after
sitting for a while. Ordinarily, you still have to choke and sometimes
prime, by pumping the bulb, on a cold carburated engine.

I'll pass that on. I'm in northern Illinois this week, while
he gets to pass the time away on Ken Lake fishing for crappie. We
examined the fuel pump and lines about 3 weeks ago before we took the
boat and outboard to the Sportsman Boat works on Rt 68, right on
Johnathon Creek. We didn't notice any leaks at that time. We may not
have examined the fuel system well enough, though. I would have
thought that the folks at Sportsman would have considered that, too.
Before that we had the boat at the Swap Market repair shop in Paducah,
and the folks there thought they had it repaired. (Actually the
proprietor of the place in Paducah did correct the timing for us,
among other things.)

Thanks for the tip, though!

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