CV16
Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Aug 30, 2007
- Messages
- 445
Ok, my dads boat has a Merc 228. It runs so sweet when you first take off in the mornings. When we shut down and fire up the kicker motor to fish, all seems well. Sometimes when we go to restart the main motor, it'll only idle. The fuel pump is good, 7-8lbs of pressure, as it should be. The fuel filter is full of gas, and I have changed the water seperator a good dozen or so times. We put an Edlebrock carb on it a few years back and it has always ran great. Well, yesterday, we did the usual 8-10 mile run out to where the fish are and it ran great. We fished til our limit was met, then headed in. It ran super all the way in. Then we decided to make a run out a few miles just to do it. On the way in, it sure felt like it was starved for gas as it would only barely run at idle again. The filter was again full of fuel, but the carb was dry. I say that the floats are getting stuck and want to rip in to it, my dad says it's vapor lock and not to mess with his carb. I need conformation from some people on here so my dad will agree to let me clean out the carb. We only have access to reformulated gas here, so I can imagine that the carb may be gunked up. He says it runs too good some times for the carb to need cleaning. And I do agree, it runs great, until you put on 15-20 miles. Am I on the right track? If not, please poiint me in the wright dirrection!!!