"Yes - I have seen the followi
"Yes - I have seen the following - started no problem on Saturday morning - cruised around all day, starting/stopping - fish for a bit, fires up right away - all is fine - coming back into the dock maybe 100 yards out, throttled down and she quit - wouldn't start for anything - used the kicker to get back in.
Carb had developed a clog in the float valve - throttling down (without the float closing properly) flooded out all the cylinders - had to dry her all out to get it to fire at all - took it home, pulled, cleaned and rebuilt the carb - no more problems.
This was "MY" motor which sees 10 times as much maintenance compared to any of the regulars that I work on.
To be fair to motor however, that was my 86 model (with a little over 2000 hours on it, so I guess it really was time for a carb rebuild anyhow - had never been pulled since brand new) and that was the first time any of my motors had ever quit on the water (which is still the reason I will not leave the dock with only one motor on the transom)
I always run new gas, always add stablizer, use a water separator filter plus the regular gas filter on the motor - decarb approx once a month - stored properly etc etc.
Sometimes you can do everything right and still get some crud in the system."
