50 mercury hp no start

[scook]

Spare Parts is the best, not me. I’ve been thinking about it and, while the fact that there are two carbs makes me doubt myself a little, it sounds like it could be a bad fuel line, but it could also be a float valve sticking closed or it could be an intermittent little hunk of something lodging somewhere in the carb.

I think yours idea is the most likely though - a problem (maybe a loose flat of rubber) in the fuel line before it splits to go to the carbs.

If you need the carbs built, I wouldn’t give up on Spare Parts. This is something he could probably do at this kitchen table and he might welcome a chance to do a little mechanic work particularly since it wouldn’t require him to get iin any painful pistons or lift hundreds of pounds.

Yeah - our mechanics are crazy expensive too. I try to do all my own work, which I haven’t done much of lately.

[steplift20]

$140.00 a hour dam that’s a lot. $ hours $420.00 plus parts. I got into the wrong business . If I was younger I would go into. Marine engine repair mostly mercury outboards.
In goin* to try again blowing air into the lines

[scook]

Have you done any research to see if there’s somewhere you can send them to be rebuilt that gets good reviews? Or tried to contact Spare Parts?

I hate to see you overpay some local bozos if there’s a better option.

[steplift20]

Me too but honestly I don’t feel comfortable removing and then installing the carbs.
I’m go8ng to ch3ck the fuel lines When it stalled out I noticed that the primer bulb is hard as a rock. And it shouldn’t be. Maybe a lin3 has a blockage. I’m go8ng to ch3ck

[scook]

That’s definitely the first thing to do.

[oteps]

Running yet?