fuel spitting out lower carb? reed problem?

RaScLeS

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someone mentioned it in another thread anyone know this for sure ? and how i might be able to fix it without going interally ? will a decarb help at all ive never done it before...

the lower carb also smokes a bit sometimes when the motor is shut off. motor runs like crap.
 

JB

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Re: fuel spitting out lower carb? reed problem?

A leaky reed could cause that.

What outboard are you talking about?
 

RaScLeS

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Re: fuel spitting out lower carb? reed problem?

its a 70horse merc 3cyl from 1979. it worked fine until i fried the stator after replacing the trigger (maybe 4hrs use tops) now new stator is in but lower carb is leaving oil on the plugs, aswell as spitting a bit of fuel with some smoke after i shut it off. very strange
 

Uxboat

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Re: fuel spitting out lower carb? reed problem?

The smoke is likely fuel vapour and my two stoke sled with out the breather on would spit back some fuel when it was running.
 
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