74' 150hp Inline 6 Merc - Leaking Carb

bga4

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Hey, the bottom carb an the middle one too lesser degree appear to be leaking a bit of gas. I gather thats not meant to happen?! haha, it appears to only happen when its sitting around though, when running it appears to be fine.

Would spraying some carb cleaner into them help you think? Admittedly the motor has been doing alot of sitting lately so im hoping it just needs a dam good run to flush it all out and get everything back into running order...

obviously worse case ill have to pull all three off and break them down an clean them all up, would rather avoid that if possible though.

thanks in advance.

cheers
 

jimmbo

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Re: 74' 150hp Inline 6 Merc - Leaking Carb

where is it leaking from?
 

bga4

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Re: 74' 150hp Inline 6 Merc - Leaking Carb

hey, was leaking from the air intake, but after giving it a good run i think it had just been over primed because after running it and leaving it sitting it didnt leak anything. Rookie mistake :)
 
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