the 50% acetone and 50% trans fluid is a recipe for homemade penetrating fluid. And is faily effective if you let it soak overnight.
if possible, I would start with a compresion test on the cyclinders. If not, then only proper thing to do is to do an overhaul/rebuild.
I was having some issue with my kicker motor I use for trolling , it would only run on choke and figured it was most likely dirty carb, so I ordered a new kit for it and pulled it off and cleaned it and I noticed something that I am not familiar with on the carburetor. There is a sort of needle...
So, my water pump started to get weak from the pee hole and I got a new kit and changed it out. Also changed the lower unit oil, however, the oil was very milky. after changing out the water pump and new oil in the lower unit, I put the flusher on it and started the engine.
HOWEVER, I had the...