Fishfearme1174
Seaman
- Joined
- Dec 5, 2015
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- 61
ok, so just finished attempting to replace fuel filter on this 2004 that has NEVER been changed - the fuel filter was in bad shape and the black painted bowl had a large sheet of paint inside the bowl floating around with very fine black paint debris - believe it or not the boat has been running good - just got around to changing this since i bought it. Any how NO LUCK getting new filter with spring installed in fuel pump bowl so installed a fuel/water separator and fuel bulb (which it needs anyway) i scrubbed the inside of the bowl very good with a wire brush until all traces of paint gone and only aluminum showing. Started her up and primed very quickly and started up. Only problem now is when I try to throttle it to raise rpm's it chokes out. What has happened? Did crap finally make it to the carbs? Or did the bowl not get torqued tight enough to the fuel pump allowing it to suck air under a greater demand (when I advance the throttle)? No leaks anywhere.