[smokeonthewater]

Yep that's right destroyer....

Larry NOBODY here said you were stupid but it's QUITE obvious (or a the very least appears so) that a feller that is asking how to handle problems with his outboard lacks experience working on one...

Just because you post details on one thread doesn't mean someone replying to another thread saw them.

BTW extra oil good additive and just running it is soooooo not the proper treatment for a neglected motor.... Sea foam and the like CAN go a long way to clean up a cruddy carb but all these additives and extra oil actually lessen the ratio of gasoline to air and as such CAN actually compound a lean condition.... Engines with multiple carbs are highly susceptible to burned pistons... One carb can be partially clogged and he others not... The engine can run about 90% perfect but one carb is lean at certain rpm's causing that cylinder to meltdown.

You may well have fully understood all this and decided the risk was worth it to you OR for all we knew you may have been making a terrible mistake from which maybe we could have saved you....

I ABSOLUTELY agree that you are welcome and appreciated here....

That said maybe a simple THANKS guys but I'm gonna........... would be better than multiple paragraphs of 'where the cow ate tha cabbage'

I'm 40 and have been slinging wrenches as a hobby literally since I was about 5. When I was about 7 and too little to pull the cord I fixed a carb problem on a chainsaw my gramps had struggled with for months... At the age of 12 I was given a '53 Evinrude 7.5 with a rod hanging out of the block.... Without any sort of manual or any help other than Dad driving me around I scrounged used parts and JB Weld'ed the block, rebiult the carb, and now nearly 30 years later the engine is still running strong and in regular use.... Those are just the beginning of my expeirence and I have wrenched on everything from dirt bikes to cars to semis to bulldozers n excavators BUT when the gurus here whisper a suggestion about marine engines I take it as law and don't doubt them for a second.

BTW my grandfather was part of pioneering nuclear military vessels and invented something or other they used on some of the first ones tho I don't remember what..... Small world.