michellebedore
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It's a 100 hp...The motor is still running super-duper rich...brand new champion marine spark plugs totally wet with oily gas with the choke open.
Is that normal????? Can this be remedied with "low idle jet" adjustment?
How do you arrive at the *proper* low idle speed, when no adjustment makes any difference?
Speaking of idling,
The RPMs seem too high (to me) but we don't have a tach hooked up...even though there IS a tach....no wires coming from the tach under the dash, and nowhere obvious to hook it up at the motor. My husband has a dwell meter, (and a timimg light) but it's for cars, but he's afraid to hook it up to the outboard for fear of frying something....anyone know about the use of a car dwell meter for outboards? And where is the coil you'd hook it up to???
So we're scratching out heads...I'm reading online and trying to garner more insight and info.
Quick recap:
*Fuel pump working fine
*Newly rebuilt carbs
*Fuel lines all clear
*Correct fuel mix
*Throttle linkage and choke linkage synchronized
* Low Idle needle turned 7/8th turn
*2-phase choke solenoid bypassed/disconnected, so we know THAT'S not the problem. (we diconnected it because we blew about 10 main line fuses in one day at a lake, and were informed of the choke solenoids in those often causing that problem.
We are wondering if the leaves inside the intake manifold could be all gummed up...after all, we DID run old gas in it which gummed up the carbs and caused a needle float to jam....which is why Nick ended up rebuilding the carbs and putting in new needle floats/seats last month. The floats we installed properly.
It has been running too rich ever since--and was even before the carbs were rebuilt. If we try to slow the idle down, the engine dies.
And yes, we now know outboard gas cannot be used if it's been sitting more than a few months--unless it has that outboard fuel stabilizing additive. We have it in the new gas right now, but in the amount directed for "operational use".
Here's a link to a quick video of it running today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNAQX95jumg
Is that normal????? Can this be remedied with "low idle jet" adjustment?
How do you arrive at the *proper* low idle speed, when no adjustment makes any difference?
Speaking of idling,
The RPMs seem too high (to me) but we don't have a tach hooked up...even though there IS a tach....no wires coming from the tach under the dash, and nowhere obvious to hook it up at the motor. My husband has a dwell meter, (and a timimg light) but it's for cars, but he's afraid to hook it up to the outboard for fear of frying something....anyone know about the use of a car dwell meter for outboards? And where is the coil you'd hook it up to???
So we're scratching out heads...I'm reading online and trying to garner more insight and info.
Quick recap:
*Fuel pump working fine
*Newly rebuilt carbs
*Fuel lines all clear
*Correct fuel mix
*Throttle linkage and choke linkage synchronized
* Low Idle needle turned 7/8th turn
*2-phase choke solenoid bypassed/disconnected, so we know THAT'S not the problem. (we diconnected it because we blew about 10 main line fuses in one day at a lake, and were informed of the choke solenoids in those often causing that problem.
We are wondering if the leaves inside the intake manifold could be all gummed up...after all, we DID run old gas in it which gummed up the carbs and caused a needle float to jam....which is why Nick ended up rebuilding the carbs and putting in new needle floats/seats last month. The floats we installed properly.
It has been running too rich ever since--and was even before the carbs were rebuilt. If we try to slow the idle down, the engine dies.
And yes, we now know outboard gas cannot be used if it's been sitting more than a few months--unless it has that outboard fuel stabilizing additive. We have it in the new gas right now, but in the amount directed for "operational use".
Here's a link to a quick video of it running today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNAQX95jumg
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