While greasing everything today I got to the exhaust housing plug, plug broke apart and it looks like the grease fitting is missing. Can I put a generic fitting in there or do I have to use the exact part number?
Got it purring like a kitten! Took the carb apart and the little venturi vent bracket was backwards and the power valve gasket was ripped. I did clean out all the little holes. Now off to change the gear oil and hopefully hit the lake!
It's a Holley 2300c. It's the ball style. Pretty sure original carb. I've got the float set a hair low to try to stop the flooding (obviously that isn't working). Fuel shoots out of the upper part of the carb when I pump the gas so I assume the accelerator pump is working?
I need help with my carburetor. Boats starts up after sitting a couple days and runs perfect for 30 seconds until the carb fills up with gas then floods out. I have ruled out just about everything except the carb. It has a new float, new needle and seat. I rebuilt the carb last year but never...
Oh yeah and I haven't run it without water, I had it submerged in a large tote that was full past the impeller inlet. It just doesn't seem like it runs good with that because the exhaust splashes the water all around so I was hoping I could do something different.
Did that, it fired up for a second and backfired. Now it's flooded. Anyone know why my ground wire on the battery starts smoking a tiny bit when trying to start it for more than 10 seconds?
Not yet. I just took the wire off the distributor and held it near the block while cranking the motor. No spark at all. Wouldn't servicing the points come after getting the coil to spark? I don't know if I mentioned this boat is new to me.
