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.