Already working on the lines and carbs. I can't believe it still has them. Some clown just trimmed them back some in the past. carbs were nearly completely stopped up at the internal filters. I skipped the fuel switch the first time, fixed the gas gauge sender and skipped the vent line at the upper one-way. She would not idle...would fire up but had to play with the choke and throttle a bit to keep her running. Took it all back apart and found new crap in the lines so I put in the in-line filter, blew air through all the lines and pick-up tubes on the baffle and reopened the carb. I think I may need to buy the rebuild kit...gaskets and o-rings looking deformed. Took off the fuel switch and tried to clean it with carb cleaner and watched the rubber liner in it dissolve so I got one of those on order. I see a bit of gunk floating around the bottom of the tank so I am getting a siphon kit from Wally world on the way home tomorrow. I have not really started on the second one yet but it now has the same disease. It was fine til I was really tossing it about Saturday. So I think the crap in the tank is still a factor. I will tear into her tomorrow while I wait for the new valve. Should I go ahead and order new vent one-ways as well as the oil filter since I have no idea when they were last checked/replaced?
The first problem was the wear ring. It was all chewed up after a trip to the beach and on the flush run back home at the lake I discovered this after it caused the pto and drive shaft to strip out. By the way, black gear oil is bad right? How bad? I replaced it but am I looking at a future problem in the pump? Anyway, replaced wear ring, drive shaft(used) and pto(used) then this carb fun started.
So when I get the thing back together, do I need to treat the carb like a new one and reset everything? I was hoping to avoid that but I don't want to roast the motor either with bad fuel mixture from laziness so I guess I answered my own question.
