air silencer gasket

jeff6898

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I noticed the Air silencer gasket on my carbs are missing on my motor. CAn this cause a air leak and effect the runing of the engine?
 

jeff6898

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Re: air silencer gasket

Sorry left off type 1979 85hp model 859999R
 

iwombat

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Re: air silencer gasket

It's probably missing on 1/2 the outboards out there. It's there so that any vapors that come back out into the airbox and collect go into the tube at the bottom and dont just leak out the seams. It really doesn't do much else.
 
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