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Thank you very much. I don’t know how long it has been sitting so I ordered a carb rebuild with float and new plugs but will try this fix prior to going through the complete rebuild. Thanks again and anything else you can think of will be helpful.
Installed an old 8hp on my fishing boat and it started right up with fresh gas. Idled great and ran great in the test bath. Brought it out on the water and initially ran great. However, after about 5 min it began to loose power even though it seemed to be running good. Low speed idle nice...