bigtime_mcalpine
Regular Contributor
I'm a bit stumped by this.
It's a 1988 2cyl 2 stroke 30hp.
Motor ran like a champ all day Saturday. Sunday morning, I pulled and pulled and pulled and it finally sputtered briefly, a few pulls later it FINALLY started. Then once again, ran beautifully all day. And I mean flawlessly, trolled with it for over 2hrs, ran it at WOT (my son only knows that one speed). Restarted it on multiple occasions even after a good 30min sitting and all it took was a very loose pull every single time.
Got up this morning and tried to start it again to find out if it was just having a bad day yesterday and had the same thing happen. Took about 20 pulls until it finally reacted.
...how many pulls of the primer do you guys use on a 70-ish degree morning? I've been giving her two full pulls.
It's a 1988 2cyl 2 stroke 30hp.
Motor ran like a champ all day Saturday. Sunday morning, I pulled and pulled and pulled and it finally sputtered briefly, a few pulls later it FINALLY started. Then once again, ran beautifully all day. And I mean flawlessly, trolled with it for over 2hrs, ran it at WOT (my son only knows that one speed). Restarted it on multiple occasions even after a good 30min sitting and all it took was a very loose pull every single time.
Got up this morning and tried to start it again to find out if it was just having a bad day yesterday and had the same thing happen. Took about 20 pulls until it finally reacted.
- it's got good spark - jumped a health-sized gap (3/8" )
- It's got good pressure - 135psi in each cylinder
- It's got nice fresh gas - 93 octane
- New carb kit, thoroughly cleaned carb
- New fuel lines
- Fuel pressure seems good
- Fuel bulb gets nice and hard
- Primer seems to squirt gas into back of carb as designed
...how many pulls of the primer do you guys use on a 70-ish degree morning? I've been giving her two full pulls.