Good morning everyone, Hope your having a good Forth of July 2010. Anyway, I took my pontoon boat out yesterday but had a little bit of a hard time cranking her over at first time of the day, but besides that it ran o.k. Today, this morning, I went out to pump the primer bulb and she got pretty hard and I saw no leaks of any kind anywhere from the black silencer box or around any of the fuel lines coming from the fuel pump or any where. I did notice on the back of the fuel pump there is a white tiny thing that sticks out once I pump the primer bulb and when I crank the engine over it retracts back in. What does that tiny white indicator mean when it sticks out and then retracts in? Is it normal for that tiny white indicator on the back of the fuel pump stick out when priming the fuel bulb up and then retract in? Anyway, once I saw this I took all three spark plugs out and cranked it over to see if maybe the float needles was not shutting fuel off to one of the carbs and seeing if fuel was spraying out one of the spark plug holes when I cranked the engine over and no fuel was spraying out and no fuel was leaking down the lower leg unit at all. My question is do you think I have a problem with the fuel pump since that tiny white indicator sticks out on the back of the fuel pump once I pump up the primer bulb and then it retracts back in as soon as I crank the engine over? Let me know what you think?
