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So now more confusion.... I came up with part number 5004558 for my
fuel pump. That means it's a VRO pump? But my engine is 2cycle and I
mix my gas and oil 50/1. Is my fuel pump also mixing oil? That would
be news to me and I don't even know where the oil goes! Also, looks
like the new unit is $300, I'll give another week of test runs, it's
getting better every day, so maybe it'll work itself out.

Only if it has an oil tank. Mine has a small oil tank sitting near the gas
tank. However, I read on these newsgroups that many people, either have
trouble with that concept or don't trust it and simply disconnect it and mix
the oil/gas in the gas tank. That sounds like what has happened in your
case. My 60hp acted just like yours last Summer and since I only took it
away from the dock twice, I never got around to fixing it. Therefore, I
read this thread with much interest.
I had disconnected the controls to redeck the pontoon boat and was thinking
that I had perhaps connected up something wrong. I wonder if it's possible
to reverse the forward and reverse throttle controls. I didn't realize that
they were separate....don't know why I didn't realize that both cables were
throttle.

Tom G