02-25-2006, 03:55 AM
PM danzilla, he claims to be pretty handy with old outboards. I would imagine parts would be a concern for motors of that age though.
Go to Walmart and get some carb spray and soak down the carb from the outside, and maybe (carefully) take the float bowl off and fill it up with carbcleaner or startingfluid (you could add a few drops of oil to it if you are worried about "running it without oil"), then put it back on and run it for a minute (this will desolve any gum in the jets).
Dan told me sometimes what he will do is just put them in a barrel of water and run them for about 6hrs till the carbon gets burned out (I would imagine you could put some Z-Max or Prolong in the gas to help break down the carbon).
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Go to Walmart and get some carb spray and soak down the carb from the outside, and maybe (carefully) take the float bowl off and fill it up with carbcleaner or startingfluid (you could add a few drops of oil to it if you are worried about "running it without oil"), then put it back on and run it for a minute (this will desolve any gum in the jets).
Dan told me sometimes what he will do is just put them in a barrel of water and run them for about 6hrs till the carbon gets burned out (I would imagine you could put some Z-Max or Prolong in the gas to help break down the carbon).
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