stan_deezy
Lieutenant Commander
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- Oct 18, 2003
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I've been on the forum a while now, mainly reading and learning loads (thanks for all the advice and stuff that I've learned:it's worth a million bucks!).<br /><br />There's something that puzzles me though:<br /><br />A lot of the problems seem to come down to the carbs in outboards and the advice is always: "take them off and clean them out".<br />Seems like reasonable advice and usually does the trick but quite often I see threads where the same carbs are taken off and cleaned, then adjusted then rebuilt maybe four or five times so here's the question:<br /><br /> Do people always use new gaskets when stripping and cleaning carbs or are they reusing the old gaskets? <br /><br />Forgive me if it seems a stoopid question but it really has me flummaxed as it seems that some people will remove the carbs several times but there is never a mention of "went back to the shop and got another gasket kit...."<br /><br />just another weird question from a tired old Scotsman