Question for the OMC God!!

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You know that 1988 175hp Evinrude my budy had I was working on, well he wants to repower and has offered me the motor.

The motor runs great now that I have got all the bugs out of it for him!!

He is running it on a 20' Grady walk around.

Now here is the thing, one of the problems we had was that when you got it on the water it would run then start to surg, no gas then have gas and so on, it would start real hard if we shut it down??

This would go on for a bit then she smooth out and be fine the rest of the day!! I mean start like a light switch, and sound great while it moved us 35 mph+

Then one day out with another friend it started again, he had noticed that there was a clamp missing on the fuel line, we replaced and ran great the whole day.

Now when you start her up and take off you get a small and I mean small surge were it wants to take off, this will just be a few times with in let say 1/2 mile then never agaim the whole day.

ReAlly sounds great, and pushes great, just this worries me a bit??

Have you heard of anything like this before?? I can get the motor for $700 maybe a bit less??

what you think?? I will try to get some pic tomorrow