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Thank you Texasmark. Got the gas flowing. OriginallyI had about 1/2 tank of about 5 month old gas and filled the rest with new gas. Now the motor starts but have to have full throttle to start and won’t idle below 2000 rpm’s. If I have bad gas can I add something like Heet and should that get it going or do I have to remove all gas and add new? Thank you
Thanks for the advise. I replaced the gas line with the primer ball and used gas from a different tank and still same problem (guess that eliminates gas). Unhooked gas line after fuel filter and cranked see gas shooting out. Did a compression test on all 4 cylinders and reads 135-140 cold. I had installed all new plugs towards the start of the problem since I had found two that were bad. No change. While doing the compression test I see the two bottom spark plugs show electrodes that had been used the two top look brand new (no type of color change). Any thoughts on how to proceed?
Thank you.
What motor do you have? 3/4 or 6 cylinder and what year? You should not be fouling out plugs from trolling. My 125 2+2 had hundreds of hours of trolling and never fouled plugs.
Huh what are you talking about? Well his trip probably would have taken 3 times longer if he had your 115 2+2 motor. And 1/2 his crew probably would have died because the food storage would have been taken up by spare sparkplugs��Absolutely mind boggling. I guess Christopher Columbus was lucky that the world was a sphere!
Huh what are you talking about? Well his trip probably would have taken 3 times longer if he had your 115 2+2 motor. And 1/2 his crew probably would have died because the food storage would have been taken up by spare sparkplugs��