Im back with my carb problems

Carb rebuild time. Get a kit, tear it down and clean. When its right, those secondary’s will dump fuel like you were pouring two water bottles out on the ground. Good job trouble shooting.

When you clean it, use spray Carb cleaner with a straw to blast out fuel passages and air bleeds. Cyclo has some pretty good pressure in there cans. Watch your eyes, that stuff stings!
 
Todays gasoline does not last long, and cloggs up passages in as little as 3 months. I would buy a carb kit, and completely disassemble the carb on a clean work bench and clean it. Get one of those torch tip cleaning tools, ( has all the different size wires) and run it through all of the passages, jets. you'll be surprised at what you'll find. Just spraying carb cleaner through it won't do it. Make sure you change the accellerator pump while your in there.It would also be a good idea to get the repair manual for the engine. When you reassemble it,make sure you set the float levels, some people overlook this step, but it is important.I would also shy away from champion plugs. NGK first, Autolite second. I also see a fram filter in your picture, I would'nt use that neither, I use mercruiser filters, but if you want to spend less, go with Baldwin,Wix, or Delco,but not fram. If its your first time rebuilding a carb, take pictures, of the linkages and stuff,you will forget wich way they go.Take it apart slowly, sometimes those little check balls fall out of everywhere. The instructions that come with the carb kit , don't always match your carb exactly, so you have to pay attention.That said, when you get it running right , you'll be proud of yourself, and will be that much more in tune with your boat.:thumbsup:
 
Its fixed!
But is wasnt the carb......
I call 6 marine shops searching for a decent price for the rebuild,3 of them were very high priced and had a wait of 5-10 days before they could even get to it. 2 of them never even called me back and my last phone call was to Hipnosis marine here in eastlake ohio.
He said sure I can do that bring it on down and he can have it ready in about 3 days and less then half of what the other guys wanted to gouge me for. I bring it up and instead of just taking and saying I'll call you when its ready, He took the time to ask me what it was doing,did I try this and check that etc. I pretty much did and tried everything on the list and we kinda said ok,well sounds like it is the carb and as I was filling out the info on the paper he ask me if I checked the one way fuel valve on top of the tank,I said I looked in there and replaced the fuel line. He said you need to unscrew it and look in there,so went to the boat and there it was a massive clog!
lol,I never thought I would have been that happy to see a clog.
Brought it back up there to show him ,he digs out a lot of crap,takes it apart and cleans it and put it back together and gives me the carb back and says now try it.
It runs like a champ it goes very well at all RPMS!
I asked him what did I owe him and he said no charge,Cant beat that.
In a way im glad this happend,now I found my new mechanic.
But there is still a mystery,what was the crap that clogged me up?
It wasnt sludge,or debri. It was Green,like a papery plastic? Maybe a seal from a addative bottle of some sort or maybe a type of teflon tape? It wasnt 1 solid piece it was a bunch of little pieces some longer and some smaller. There is always a chance there is still more of in there,Im just going to check again after a few more runs to see if I need to get in there and drain and suck it clean.
But any ideas on what that is let me know.
If you need a good mechanic call hipnossis marine right here in eastlake ohio :)
 
Nice to hear you got it fixed and it was a freebie. Those are few and far between.

Like R8anger mentioned, it might be the problem with Ethanol added to gas. We had several boats in my marina that had Ethanol caused clogs. I forgot what the exact cause was, but I believe the mixture of Ethanol and gas causes some plastics, and possibly fuel lines, to corrode. I think others here can elaborate on what exactly happens, but it's a possibility. Did the mechanic mention that at all?
 
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My 89 220 has an aluminum tnak. Is your tank aluminum or Fiberglass? Ethanol will eat up a fiberglass gas tank and cause the strands of glass to clog the system...
 
The tank is aluminum,I guess it could possible eat stuff up but just not sure what. Could it be some kind of pipe dope type stuff inside the tank?
 
I dont know if the tank was installed while the chopper gun was operating during the build process. Could be possible that some stray fiberglass made its way into the tank during construction. Maybe the marina or station you filled up at had a fiberglass storage tank and it seperated into the fuel, but there should be an inline filter to catch anything before it goes through the filler hose.
 
Do a google search for "16B5R2 carburetor" you will see that ******* has a link to this pdf. It is the Mercruiser document on Weber carbs. It will show you how to ID yours and how to repair/tune it. :) MBH
 
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Buy your new mechanic a 6 pack of his favorite beer. I am sure he will appreciate that!!! Free dosen't happen much any more.
 
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