Re: Do I need to take the carbs off?
What's wrong with them? If one is just overflowing, the needle is stuck. This is common on 2 cycle outboards when they sit for a year or so.<br />JB is right tho. To do it right, they get completely torn-down,cleaned spotlessly, and reassembled. You can approach this job as tho they were models that needed to be assembled.<br />Too cold to do it right now, isn't it?<br /> -1* ???? <br /><br /><br />Sometimes, you can "un-stick" them by gently tapping the carb bowl while someone squeezes the primer bulb. If it quits overflowing, you got it.<br />A plugged jet or orifice is not as common, but will cause grief. Depending on the carb spray you use, it's sometimes possible to clear the pickup tube and jet with the bowl off.<br />Running carb cleaner or Seafoam "Deep Creep" (a product I just discovered werks well as a starting fluid for outboards), thru the carbs will disolve goo. You can allow the bowls to fill with "Deep-Creep", let them sit for a while, crank it till it fires briefly, then shut down for another hour.<br />The idle mixture screw should be removed, Carb cleaner spayed-thru the orifice, and re-installed. There is a right and wrong way to do that.<br />Right way is;<br />Get a piece of paper and pen, and write "top", "mid", and "Bottom" on it.<br /><br />Start with the top, and turn it clockwise while counting the turns. Carefull, Do not tighten them! Only until they seat. Write the number of turns down on the paper, so that when you R&R them, you can put them right back where they were. <br />The thing with these adjustments are, they are set to optimimum right now --- unless somebody tried to adjust them better. So when the carb is clean,it will be "as it was originally".
