Carb rebuilt..to much fuel

[lee powell]

Hi everyone:
I just rebuilt the carbs on my 1989 90hp evinrude. Running on the hose never noticed a problem. Put it in the water today and throttled it up and it sounded like it was running out of gas and shut off. Pulled the cowl and air silencer cover off and tried to restart it and seen that there was fuel pouring out of the air bleed hole/overload hole(front,top,middle portion of top carb). Attached pic of hole. I could put my foot over the hole and get it to restart again and get it back to the loading ramp, had to do this several times. The floats are adjusted correctly i believe just off level as per Joe reeves instructions and with a 1" drop as per manual instructions. Carbs where soaked in carb cleaner and all 6 orifices in both carbs were cleaned out and blown threw. Floats are installed right also. New kits were used. Does anybody have a clue what is going on here?
Thanks for your help,
Lee

 

[rockyrude]

Re: Carb rebuilt..to much fuel

It sounds like quite possibly a small piece of dirt may have gotten in between the float valve and the seat causing the flooding condition.

 

[Daviet]

Re: Carb rebuilt..to much fuel

Gota be either float or needle and seat problem, pull the carb apart and check it out.

 

[lee powell]

Re: Carb rebuilt..to much fuel

Thanks for the reply Rockyrude and Daviet.
I thought the same thing and was needing to get a couple of suggestion while it is raining here. I had seen a couple of posts about a seemlier problem that i have and i believe it was a scored cylinder issue. I hope that's not my problem. I will pull them in a little while and check the needle seat.
Thanks again,

 

[lee powell]

Re: Carb rebuilt..to much fuel

Hi everyone:
You would never guess what the problem was. Out of all the years I've work on and rebuilt carbs (dirt track race cars) never a boat carb the first boat I've ever owned. I've never seen this happened before. The needle retainer clip had slid in between the float pin ear on the carb and would not let the float rise back up. Before I installed them I blew threw the fuel line in both positions and it worked fine. It must have slipped between there while I was installing them. I'm glad I seen it before it slipped back out are I would have been puzzled over the hole thing, because the carbs are very clean inside. Who knew!!! Maybe Mr. Joe Reeves.
Thanks for your help,
Lee