Been searching this and other forums for months now. A lot of good info but still unable to resolve the issue.
First time out this year started up smooth and ran excellent for about 20min then it was just like the key was turned off. Started back up ram fine for awhile then quite and wouldn’t start. Went through the fuel system and it eventually started ran fine the rest of the day. Next day ran good for a bit then died. Started but would only idle any time you try to give gas it would die.
Months later after checking everything I could. The only thing that stood out was I was only getting 4v to the coils. But I was getting spark. Three power packs later and some help with cdi electronics. Ended up reversing the connection of the Dva tester so red to the block and black to coil it actually was reading 170v. Not sure there’s a problem with the Dva tester of what but left that and started on the carbs again.
Cleaned the carbs for probably the third time used oem carb kit with new floats. New fuel lines. Did find one fuel line that was in rough shape and leaking a bit of fuel into the housing. Checked the reeds and they look good as fas as I can tell from the carb side. Replaced the little check valve on the cylinder drain lines or what ever they are.
Start and runs quite good on the muffs. As soon as it gets into the water though it’s quite hard to start and still won’t idle and misses and jerks. Until it get me over 2000rpm. Ran for 30 min from 2-5000 excellent nice and smooth. Get below 2000 and it starts to miss. Shut it off and same thing hard to get running and into gear again.
Pulled the port side spark plugs looked good and the cylinder was hot to the touch. Pulled the starboard plugs and they were wet and the cylinders luke warm.
When I start it does start the really only way I can get it going is the quickly put it in gear push in the key give it kinda a kick in rpm and then I can give it throttle.
Gonna tear the carbs apart again. And look more into the idle or slow speed circuit. Can anyone confirm how these plastic carbs work? And confirm which jets should be were. I pretty confident I didn’t screw that up but who know. Also, what are the two bass tubes do? Vent or overflow? I know the one I could blow through but the other one didn’t really seem to move any air on all the carbs.
Any help, insight or where to look for info would be greatly appreciated!
First time out this year started up smooth and ran excellent for about 20min then it was just like the key was turned off. Started back up ram fine for awhile then quite and wouldn’t start. Went through the fuel system and it eventually started ran fine the rest of the day. Next day ran good for a bit then died. Started but would only idle any time you try to give gas it would die.
Months later after checking everything I could. The only thing that stood out was I was only getting 4v to the coils. But I was getting spark. Three power packs later and some help with cdi electronics. Ended up reversing the connection of the Dva tester so red to the block and black to coil it actually was reading 170v. Not sure there’s a problem with the Dva tester of what but left that and started on the carbs again.
Cleaned the carbs for probably the third time used oem carb kit with new floats. New fuel lines. Did find one fuel line that was in rough shape and leaking a bit of fuel into the housing. Checked the reeds and they look good as fas as I can tell from the carb side. Replaced the little check valve on the cylinder drain lines or what ever they are.
Start and runs quite good on the muffs. As soon as it gets into the water though it’s quite hard to start and still won’t idle and misses and jerks. Until it get me over 2000rpm. Ran for 30 min from 2-5000 excellent nice and smooth. Get below 2000 and it starts to miss. Shut it off and same thing hard to get running and into gear again.
Pulled the port side spark plugs looked good and the cylinder was hot to the touch. Pulled the starboard plugs and they were wet and the cylinders luke warm.
When I start it does start the really only way I can get it going is the quickly put it in gear push in the key give it kinda a kick in rpm and then I can give it throttle.
Gonna tear the carbs apart again. And look more into the idle or slow speed circuit. Can anyone confirm how these plastic carbs work? And confirm which jets should be were. I pretty confident I didn’t screw that up but who know. Also, what are the two bass tubes do? Vent or overflow? I know the one I could blow through but the other one didn’t really seem to move any air on all the carbs.
Any help, insight or where to look for info would be greatly appreciated!
