Thanks for the advice. Fuel injector cleaner is fine with a carb?I need to buy the shop manual for the motor I don't know anything about it other than it likes high octane gas. Nachos seem complicated for a boat ride. Pringles and Swiss rolls for me (same on the ice, sub the beer for bourbon)
I think I still have a issue with air in the lines myself. I am suffering from hard starting when I first launch. Once warm starts and operation seems ok but coming off plane it breaks up and stalls. Can be very hard to start afterwards. Ive replaced the fuel line and primer. I suspect I need to reblock the oil feed line on the vro because the pervious owner didnt do the best job amd I suspect its sucking in some air. Primer bulb is getting a bit softer than normal during operation. Also the idle is sometimes normal othertimes elevated by roughly 500 rpms. Carbs were rebuilt this season. New water seperator and all new lines. Pickup in tank was claimed to be inspected. This is a 1990 140 looper. Occasionally it seems hard to actually prime...the bulb fills and gets stiff but getting fuel into the carbs seems difficult when warm. Although rare I read the loopers can suffer from vapor lock if hot.
The factory plastic clamp on the inlet hose for oil into the VRO was leaking. I fixed it and was operational for a brief time before the startwr solenoid bit it. She spins but wont raise to engage the flywheel thankfully a replacement was 60 bones. Should help with the starts. From what I understand its important to spin those pretty quick to get them to fire. Thanks for the response boondox. I had the tsat replaced and there is a solid stream through of water.
Thanks man. I need to grab a new starter! All the testing has made the origional unit shot... Im shoping for a yamaha 90. The looper has been good to be but with the amount of time I spend fishing I have no business with carbs!
Is the new starter from new cause of hard starting from old starter ? Like takes lots of cranking to start it??I would have the head gasket checked if that's the case. Low compression causes hard starting and low compression can cause high idel from a air leak threw head gasket.. hopefully you get that yami 90 hp if any thing..