baseball_guy_99
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I offered to work on my buddies motor because it had not been ran in about 3 years.
To start off with, I put a gas/oil/seafoam mixture in the cylinders, hooked up the muffs, and the motor fired right up. Noticed right off the bat, that it didn't want to stay running. So I took the fuel pump apart and cleaned it. The gaskets and everything were still flexible and not brittle so I put it back together and started the motor up again...it wasn't pumping water.
So I pulled the lower unit off, and pulled the impeller out. It was cracked, dry rotted, and 1 of the fins was broke. So I ordered a replacement, put it in, put it all back together and hooked it up to the muffs. Started the motor back up, and it revved up to what seemed like 1/2 throttle and wouldn't idle back down. And it still wasn't pumping any water.
I'm assuming the revving up is because of some junk in the carb that has a jet stuck open???
As far as it not pumping water??? I cleaned out the tell tale hose, any idea what else it could be?
To start off with, I put a gas/oil/seafoam mixture in the cylinders, hooked up the muffs, and the motor fired right up. Noticed right off the bat, that it didn't want to stay running. So I took the fuel pump apart and cleaned it. The gaskets and everything were still flexible and not brittle so I put it back together and started the motor up again...it wasn't pumping water.
So I pulled the lower unit off, and pulled the impeller out. It was cracked, dry rotted, and 1 of the fins was broke. So I ordered a replacement, put it in, put it all back together and hooked it up to the muffs. Started the motor back up, and it revved up to what seemed like 1/2 throttle and wouldn't idle back down. And it still wasn't pumping any water.
I'm assuming the revving up is because of some junk in the carb that has a jet stuck open???
As far as it not pumping water??? I cleaned out the tell tale hose, any idea what else it could be?