8 HP Running Problem

max366

Cadet
Joined
Feb 14, 2002
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My '88 8HP Evinrude has always run flawlessly. Started it this weekend and it started rough but ran at medium speed. When I tried to run the RPM up, it bogged down and quit. Restarted it and it would rev up as long as the choke was pulled out 1/2 way. Still wouldn't rev up to full RPM without bogging down. <br /><br />Got it back to the dock and cleaned the fuel screen which had brownish-yellow curds on it, almost blocking the screen completely. <br /><br />Took it out and had the same symptoms as above. The fuel had Stabil in the fall which ran through the engine before fogging. <br /><br />Seems like some of the crud got into the carb? Any other ideas? If the carb has the crud, what can be done?
 

Yepblaze

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Jun 1, 2001
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Re: 8 HP Running Problem

I know it shows carb(s) off something other than your motor but this might help.<br /><br /> http://www.dgweb.com/~bobaloo/Carbclean/CarbClean.htm <br /><br />You may need to get in there and free up any debris lodged in the actual jets and passageways.<br /><br />Then again, I recently came across one similar and the o-rings in the fuel connectors had gone bad allowing air to be sucked in by the fuel pump. A trip to Walmart for a new fuel line with connectors fixed that one.
 
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