iwombat
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Was out on a friend's boat Saturday when it lost power and started running on two. Dropped anchor and started messing around . . .
Determined it wasn't running on the top two, but it seemed to have hot-enough spark. (no proper spark tester)
Eventually, we tried pumping the bulb though and if you kept pumping REALLY HARD it would get the other two cylinders to fire. I figured a stuck float - I was sorta right.
We had a full tool kit, so off came the top carb. When we opened it up the float valve bushing had walked out a couple of turns and there was no way that float valve was going to open up with anything more than a couple of drops in the float bowl. 1/2 hour later and we had a healthy motor again. PHEW!
Anyway, just sharing an odd one.
Determined it wasn't running on the top two, but it seemed to have hot-enough spark. (no proper spark tester)
Eventually, we tried pumping the bulb though and if you kept pumping REALLY HARD it would get the other two cylinders to fire. I figured a stuck float - I was sorta right.
We had a full tool kit, so off came the top carb. When we opened it up the float valve bushing had walked out a couple of turns and there was no way that float valve was going to open up with anything more than a couple of drops in the float bowl. 1/2 hour later and we had a healthy motor again. PHEW!
Anyway, just sharing an odd one.
