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Thanks for all the input guys. Guess it all depends on what I find when I pull the head. Of course it looks like I'll be pulling 16 hour days all this week so may have to hold off til the weekend. If I can get it rebuilt for say under 2K I may just do that for now and save up for a 4 stroker in the future. I hate having to finance anything, especially boat related and I don't exactly have $12G laying around to spend on a motor. An old man told me once only kinda of boat you can love is one that's paid for. I've taken his advice for 15 years and even though I've had downed boats at least they weren't down and I was paying on it.

Draglink, are you taking about Mr. Belvin? Also are you running your oil injection? Mine was bypassed and I mixed the fuel 50:1. I really hate having to do that but my Merc friend said its the way to go. He also wonders if that's why it leaned out. He said whenever he bypasses injection he's had to jet up the carbs. This was indeed a freshly rebuilt motor so I wonder if they didn't do that. I also plan on pulling the carbs and taking them to him to see if he thinks that may be the culprit. Just wondering if anyone else has heard that.