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For a rough and dirty test to see if you are sucking air in your fuel supply/primer bulb/filter connections, can you just clamp off your fuel line near the tank and pull a vacuum on the line at the VRO location and see if it holds a vacuum? If so, how far down would you pull it. I don't have...
Background. Engine has really never run perfect, it's always been a bit "lopey" @ fast idle and an occasional "lean sneeze" since I bought the boat in 2000 (a mechanic early on said that the sneeze was HARD to fix and suggested living with the sneeze), EXCEPT for one week, 2 summers ago. I had...