Engine won’t idle

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MCFAM

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I have a 95 Volvo 230 engine it is an iq125a. It has a soles p44a1 carb on it. Fresh tune-up and carb cleaned and rebuilt. Boat runs awsome out on the water but I can not get it to idle no matter what I do with the adjustments. Any help would be awsome!! Tired of stalling coming into the dock!!
 
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That is not only frustrating but loosing thrust at a critical moment can be dangerous.

Please provide some more info: did this symptom only occur after the carb rebuild or was it the reason to rebuild the carb? Does it idle at all or does it only stall when coming off throttle? How do you get it started and into gear? If will not idle at all, what is the minimum RPM needed to keep it running? Did you do the carb rebuild? If yes, are you 100% confident that all the passages are free of debris?

The idea here is to provide as much info as possible to help the good folks here diagnose or provide steps for you to try and report on to get this resolved. Thanks.
 
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MCFAM

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The rebuild was because it wouldn’t idle. I can turn the idle all the way up around 2500 rpms and get it down to 1800. I can t go below that or it just dies. It will start right back up with just a couple pumps of the gas and it runs great once I feather the throttle past about 1800 rpms.
 
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