hello all, we recently bought a bayliner capri with a 125 in it, the motor runs, we took it out on water but it very hard to get started without flooding it and pretty much will not idle, tops out at 4k RPM.
so i've read a bunch of things on here and have alot of experience with working on car engines, new and old and have worked on carbs before but what this thing is doing is pretty baffling.
so far i have done the carb sync and checked the timing, but before doing that i noticed that the top carb esp but the bottom one as well will spew lots of gas out of the front when trying to start it with the choke on in neutral and discovered the needle and seat floats were not stopping gas from filling probably because it has the old black foam floats, today i pulled both carbs off (one at a time) and took them apart and cleaned everything with carb cleaner and bent the floats so they will definitely close the needles. put it all back together only to find out its still doing it even though the floats are working now for sure because the hand fuel pump primer gets really firm where before it would never get firm and i could hear gas squirting in the carbs. any ideas?
our driveway is not very level and because of this the motor is tilted at a downward angle tword the carbs a little bit but not so much i would think it would cause a problem, say 5-10 degree tilt at most, the next thing i was going to try was moving it to the street so it can be level and trying again.
thanks in advance and if you need pictures or even a video let me know and i'll do it, we really just want to get this thing to idle correctly before taking it out again because if the motor died on the water last time it quickly turned into a 5-10 min adventure trying to get it going again because it won't idle, its basically like if it fires a little bit stick it in gear and give it gas to keep it going.
so i've read a bunch of things on here and have alot of experience with working on car engines, new and old and have worked on carbs before but what this thing is doing is pretty baffling.
so far i have done the carb sync and checked the timing, but before doing that i noticed that the top carb esp but the bottom one as well will spew lots of gas out of the front when trying to start it with the choke on in neutral and discovered the needle and seat floats were not stopping gas from filling probably because it has the old black foam floats, today i pulled both carbs off (one at a time) and took them apart and cleaned everything with carb cleaner and bent the floats so they will definitely close the needles. put it all back together only to find out its still doing it even though the floats are working now for sure because the hand fuel pump primer gets really firm where before it would never get firm and i could hear gas squirting in the carbs. any ideas?
our driveway is not very level and because of this the motor is tilted at a downward angle tword the carbs a little bit but not so much i would think it would cause a problem, say 5-10 degree tilt at most, the next thing i was going to try was moving it to the street so it can be level and trying again.
thanks in advance and if you need pictures or even a video let me know and i'll do it, we really just want to get this thing to idle correctly before taking it out again because if the motor died on the water last time it quickly turned into a 5-10 min adventure trying to get it going again because it won't idle, its basically like if it fires a little bit stick it in gear and give it gas to keep it going.