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she will turn over and run. before i took it to the shop when she was under load it had a problem so i used a can of sea foam and she ran fine so i took it out to a river and ran it and she ran fine then so the next day i went to the bay and it ran fine until i stopped to fish then it would not stay running i had to unbolt the cover to the carbs and spray the carbs with fuel in order to make it to land. i sent it in to a show and they said it was a solenoid and fouled plugs so i paid the money and took my boat home when i got home i hit the button to lower the motor and nothing.
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she will turn over and run. before i took it to the shop when she was under load it had a problem so i used a can of sea foam and she ran fine so i took it out to a river and ran it and she ran fine then so the next day i went to the bay and it ran fine until i stopped to fish then it would not stay running i had to unbolt the cover to the carbs and spray the carbs with fuel in order to make it to land. i sent it in to a show and they said it was a solenoid and fouled plugs so i paid the money and took my boat home when i got home i hit the button to lower the motor and nothing.
I'd have been more thinking along the line that it was fouled carbs... did you have a filter on the gas line? Fouled plugs will stay fouled until replaced or cleaned.. The likelyhood of they're firing just by spraying gas into the carbs is not really high. I'm a little confused though... did you say that she's running now?
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Me too be confused.
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ok sorry guys.....she runs now i dont think it runs good but it runs it sounds a little rough....i get alot of white smoke. i ran it today for about 5 min in a trash can full of water and at first when i throtteled up it didnt seem to want to go up. but the tilt still does not work
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ok sorry guys.....she runs now i dont think it runs good but it runs it sounds a little rough....i get alot of white smoke. i ran it today for about 5 min in a trash can full of water and at first when i throtteled up it didnt seem to want to go up. but the tilt still does not work
Pull a compression test on the engine...make sure that's ok... then go back to wherever you paid $900 and tell them that the tilt still does not work and they need to fix it at THEIR expense since you already paid them to fix it once. Still sounds like the carbs to me, but I'm not a full time mechanic so I can be wrong... but for $900 that thing should be purring like a kitten in my book
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i am taking it to a guy on monday i will have him rebuild the carbs
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