my 1960 40 horse floods when starting dead cold, no choke or throttle and it still has to crank out some gas before it gets going. after a minute or so of sputtering and gassing up the launch area, it finally catches and runs great.once its been running, it starts up first crank, unless its been off for over an hour, even then its not nearly as difficult and usually grabs in the first 5-7 turns of the flywheel . I have rebuilt the whole motor sans lower unit, and re-epoxied the float when I rebuilt the carb, also made sure the float level was right. new needle and seat as well.. 125psi on both barels.<br />any attempt at chokeing or high Idling just makes it worse..<br /><br />could this be from a too rich setting on the idle adjustment? I am at only about 3/4 turn out now and am kind of afraid to clamp it down until I get the smoothest idle, as i dont want to run it lean and smoke all my new parts..<br /><br />any Ideas?
<br /><br />I've got the "by the numbers" instructions here somewhere. I'll try to find them.