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My Past experience indicates you stored your motor without applying a fuel
stabilizer. This in turn caused artherisclerosis of the fuel lines and carb.
So... now you have resin coating inside of fuel lines and carburator from
fuel drying out in there.
If not too bad you may be able to clean with a high concentration of Valve
Tech Carburetor cleaner. You will need both the spray kind and the pour in
kind. You will need to drain fuel lines and fill with carb cleaner then fill
gas can with clean new virgin fuel adding the recommended dose of carb
cleaner and about 2 ounces more. Then you will have to run engine for 30
minutes. If this does not work you will have to disassemble carb and clean
all orifices including fuel lines. May be best to replace fuel lines.
Good luck!
SF
In a message dated 3/27/00 10:50:58 AM Pacific Standard Time,
cwestlake@k-w-b.com writes:
<< Here's my problem. My year old Nissan 5 hp 4 stroke is having problems
running on idle. It keeps dying. At full throttle it seems to work
fine. I had it serviced just a couple of months ago and it has been
working fine.
The dilemma gets worse. I was planning on taking the True Love to
Savannah for 5 days later this week, and I would like to get it fixed
but my fix it guy can't get to it by Wed. I am not much of a
mechanic, but does anyone have any potential easy fixes I could try.
It'll kill me if I can't bring my boat to the coast on this trip. I
feel a little nervous about taking it out with a tempermental motor. I
have to make a twisty turny 4 mile trip on the ICW from ramp to marina
that would be a nightmare without a motor.
Any tips? Could it be bad gas? I topped off my tank Saturday afternoon
prior to experiencing the problems Sunday am. Thanks in advance.
Curt Westlake
WWP 19 #1096 "True Love"
Greenville, SC
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