I got this boat for free. When I first got it, it would start but not keep running unless I kept choking it. Naturally, i figured it was the fuel pump. But i decided to run some seafoam thru the fuel (thinking the carbs were a little gummed) and after playing with it a bit... it would run on its own. Everytime I started it I would only have to press the choke a few times during the initial few cranks, i.e., a normal startup. It ran fine for the next week.<br /><br />It has been sitting around for 1 1/2 months and now someone wants to buy it. However, I am having this same problem. What do you think the problem is. Dirty carbs?<br /><br />The fuel had seafoam and some fuel stabilizer in it so I don't think this is a sour fuel problem.<br /><br />Like I said before, once it "beats" this problem for the first time, it doesn't do it anymore.
