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Wow thats all great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am printing it all out as we speak ;)

I will be putting boat in the water sometime after the weekend and see what happens!

Just talked to CB Now he weants toi come up, I said yea now that tyhe work is done!!
He just laughed! >:(


Thanks everyone!!!!!!!!!! I still be straching my head with out you's!!

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Damm Therm. You done your homework. Great Pics. That should get MJ up and running. ;)

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The 140 I got was a complete basket case when i got it, that's how I got it. The previous owner couldn't find anybody to ever get it to run right, and he only had it for 2 months. The guy he bought it from unloaded his problem child onto him. The guy I got it from spent too much money on it with another mechanic that couldn't get it to run on all 4. He brought it to me, and I got it to run but it still wouldn't wind up smoothly. Then it overheated and burned up #2 cylinder, so he told me to keep it.

At this point I took it on as a challenge to get this thing running right again(I'm EXTREMELY STUBBORN!!!, and PERSISTENT). So I rebuilt it, and then started sorting it all out. Thus how I learned about JOHNNY-RUDE loopers. Now I can set em up almost blindfolded.

Re: The Motor won't start??
 

Well it looks like a choke problem??

After letting it sit all night there is no start?

But after I sprayed with starter fluid it fired right up and will evertime after that!

I here nothing at the motor when we push the key in??

Can you FL guys start with no choke cause it is warm there?

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MJ if I'm not mistaken, the choke dosen't close the butterflys (on that model) but just scoots (or makes it able to) gas directly into the throat of the carbs.
I do have a 30 like that and I think my 150 does that.
When I choke mine, I don't hear anything but it does choke it.
Yours does have a small flag type lever to manually choke it? If so try that.
For those of you that have forgotten (I did) this is an "86 225hp.

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Yes I have the red flag, I turned it up and throtteled up and she started like a charm!! But I had to run back there before it stalled and turn it down to stay running. Here she is running

http://syncboard.com/albums/album05/...040_Medium.jpg

Next problem I think I know were all the water is going!!

Whats going on here??

http://syncboard.com/albums/album05/...dium.sized.jpg

It even comes out were the missing Zinc screw is??

http://syncboard.com/albums/album05/...dium.sized.jpg

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They all will do that but that does look excessive.

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And that piss tube ain't very strong.

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well the real thing first is the choke, I can't be having to remove the cover and turning that flag all the time??

My key switch seems funky and wonder if it doesn't work right, or if there is a problem with the selnoid for the choke??

I will swap out the key switch tomorow?

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Solenoid or key switch will do that to the choke.
What kind of maintance has been done? Is it possible they misaligned the tube from the water pump or an o-ring or seal is split?