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Wayne.B wrote in
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On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:09:42 -0400, wrote:

If you want the
benefit of storing a carb dry, you must disassemble it, clean it with
solvent and then blow it completely dry with compressed air. You can't
leave a few drops of gasoline in any nooks, crannies or jets without
bad consequences.

That's technically correct but letting the motor run out of gas before
storage delivers most of the benefits with a lot less effort.
Stabilized gas can still gum up, it just takes longer.



Another thing that works better on a run-almost-dry outboard is storing it
on it SIDE rather than hanging upright on a stand. Any fuel left in the
bowl is now against the top side of the bowl, so when it evaporates what
tiny residue it leaves is nowhere near the jets in the bottom of the bowl,
so no threat to clogging them. When you crank it back up next time, the
new gas flowing through the engine will, eventually, redissolve the tiny
residue while you're cruising along on the clean jets....(c;]

Ah, some of the benefits of a SIMPLE two-stroke engine....no crankcase oil.


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recently bought a 1967 arrow ski boat
 

On Jul 17, 10:26*am, Larry wrote:
"Captain A. Gore" wrote :



"new boater....kinda" wrote in message
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I have an arrow ski boat with a 74 115 horse mercury in it. it has 3
carbs and from the looks of it i have carb problems. how much should
it cost me to get this fixed?

'Bout a bazillion drachmas

Clear off the dining room table and cover it with newspapers.

Take the carbs off and don't lose the linkages.

Take the float bowls off and clean out the obvious gook and other junk
with carb cleaner AWAY FROM THE HOUSE. *Soak the carbs in carb cleaner
for a few days to let it melt that shellac that's clogging up the jets. *
Use a fine wire to ream the crap out of the jets. *Be careful not to
make the holes larger though.

Now clean as new, reassemble it all and thank the wife for the dining
room table usage. *

Put the carbs back on and let the primer pump fill the bowls back up. *
If there's spark, she should start right up. *2-stroke engines aren't
rocket science.

If it still won't start, remove the flywheel with a puller and inspect
the stator the magnets whirl around to make all the power. *Curse
Mercury when you find the totally unprotected soft iron core of the
stator has rotted into rust and shorted out your magnetism that makes
the power. *Buy an aftermarket stator and coat all the exposed soft iron
surfaces with heavy axle grease to protect it forever under the
flywheel. *Why an American outboard motor company can't figure that out
never ceases to amaze me.

After replacing the rotted stator, don't let your fingers get anywhere
near those ignition coils or you're gonna pay bigtime! *It can't help
but fire, now, unless the crankshaft is frozen.....

After you get it running, every time you're putting it back on the
trailer shut off the fuel while the engine is still sucking cooling
water on the trailer and let it run until it stalls. *When it starts to
stall, hit the choke to suck out all the gas from the carbs you can. *If
the other owner had done that, we wouldn't be having this discussion. *
The boat was stored with gas in the carbs, which evaporated and left the
shellac behind...same as every other gas motor ever stored.

Nice engine...SIMPLE so mere humans can fix it on a dining room table.
Splurge and buy it a new water pump impeller so it doesn't overheat. *
The old one's trash.

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Larry

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entrails of the last cleric.

Ok how hard is this to do? is there a good chance ill break something?
I want my boat to run and am afraid ill screw it up

recently bought a 1967 arrow ski boat
 

"new boater....kinda" wrote in news:1ba68fa5-83f9-
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Ok how hard is this to do? is there a good chance ill break something?
I want my boat to run and am afraid ill screw it up


Then, simply take the boat to any competent outboard mechanic, transferring
the responsibility for its repairs to him. It's worth every penny as you
power away from the dock.

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Larry

Noone will be safe until the last lawyer has been strangled by the entrails
of the last cleric.