okay so I have a 66 40hp and most of the year it ran well I had some stalling in the fall and someone told me to get some ethanol treatment for the gas. I did that and the next time out it stuttered a few times early than ran well the rest of the day. At this point I got a little money for my b-day and invested in a new starter as I had been pull starting for 5 years. i put in the new starter and the next time out I had trouble getting it to run it would turn over rev way up than die when I finally got it to go for a second and tried to throttle down it would stall out. now it has always had trouble with the throttle all the way down but would still idle at a couple clicks above lowest throttle that would turn into a good trolling speed 2.5 mph or so. this last time I couldnt get anywhare near that rpm set without stalling. the slowest I could go was about 5mph. after some reasearch I decided to rebuild the carb and got some help from here and finished that. its doing the same thing where it will start rev up than stall. I noticed that when I primed it fuel squireted out of the fuel pump. I tightened the screw in the center and let it sit and soak for a minuet and that problem went away but the engine still will not stay running. I gave up and winterized it as this week would have been my last chance till spring. I'm not ready to give up on the motor all togather as it has been good to me for the last 5 years and I dont have the money to replace it. is there anything I could have done when I replaced the starter that would cause this? or could it be the fuel pump and the timing is coincidence. the starter is assmbly included a bracket and a plastic lever like piece attached to it. I got the starter from a starter specialty place and they attached it to the bracket for me the plastic piece is still there and in the same position it was before I toot it off. i'll take any advice I can get I have all winter to work on it but wont be able to try starting it again till spring when I do new plugs and oil. also when I rebuilt the carb I pulled and checked the plugs they were very clean in fact cleaner than normal for this time of year but the back end where the wire plugs in was loose (partially unscrewed). I didnt even know they came apart like that. I have always used champion j6c plugs but this year my normal store didnt have them so the gave me a different brand that they said was the same thing just a higher grade (they cost about a buck more each). again i didnt have any problems untill this fall and the biggest problems happened when I got the starter.
