I’m ashamed to admit, I did not follow any “manuals”. I just eyeballed the settings to match the carb I removed. Clearly, I have little experience working on engines. This forum paired with YouTube has gotten me this far. Knowing all the steps involved (and there are many for everything) is the...
Ah, ok! That might be the issue. It does have an adjustment screw for that. I didn’t try that since it was set to roughly the same as the one I replaced but with all the other new parts it may need adjusting. I’ll will try today and report the result.
I haven’t even gotten to the leak issue...
Follow up:
I got it running but just barely.
I removed the new spark plugs and they had a thin film of carbon on them. I sprayed them with cleaner, wiped them off and put them back in. It started up at that point but ran with a cough and a studder for about 2 or 3 minutes then died and...
I have been sifting through this forum for the past month trying to solve this issue and it has me baffled. I've learn WAY more about this engine than I ever wanted to learn but I haven't learned how to fix this problem. Perhaps someone here can help.
Short story:
I got a call from the marina...