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"Hello, im new to the outboard
"Hello, im new to the outboard motor world. I have a 1979 80 horse Mariner, with serial number 5385541. Last week, we took the boat to the lake, and the motor was hard to start, and even harder to keep running. After about a half hour, we fianally got it started and let it idle for a good 10 minutes, but everytime I put it in gear to go, it would bog down and die. When I got the boat home, i pulled off the air box cover, and cranked the motor. It idles fine, but fuel is just pooring out of two jets/holes/i dont really know what they are on the bottom of the two carbs. I think i read somewhere that these are overflow jets or something. So much is flowing out in fact, that i had to sifon out a large amount out of the bottom cowl. I have had this boat since 1991, and its never given any problems, with the exception of hard starting after it sits for the winter. But when it runs, it runs good, good enough to push my 15ft bass boat 43 mph with two people in it. I need help figureing out what this problems is, and how I should go about fixing it. Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Phil"
"Hello, im new to the outboard motor world. I have a 1979 80 horse Mariner, with serial number 5385541. Last week, we took the boat to the lake, and the motor was hard to start, and even harder to keep running. After about a half hour, we fianally got it started and let it idle for a good 10 minutes, but everytime I put it in gear to go, it would bog down and die. When I got the boat home, i pulled off the air box cover, and cranked the motor. It idles fine, but fuel is just pooring out of two jets/holes/i dont really know what they are on the bottom of the two carbs. I think i read somewhere that these are overflow jets or something. So much is flowing out in fact, that i had to sifon out a large amount out of the bottom cowl. I have had this boat since 1991, and its never given any problems, with the exception of hard starting after it sits for the winter. But when it runs, it runs good, good enough to push my 15ft bass boat 43 mph with two people in it. I need help figureing out what this problems is, and how I should go about fixing it. Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Phil"