Mercruiser 5.7 Thunderbolt 5 Hard to Start

Georgearia

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Not to change your direction of thought here, but this sounds like the carb rebuild needs doing again. You said you're flooding. You have spark. TV is very trouble free, or it doesn't work at all. I would suggest you open the service manual for your motor, if you don't have it, use the free online one from boatinfo.no It has a very detailed carburetor rebuild and settings section. My bet is you have some crud opening a throttle pump check ball, or a float height that is wrong. Bad power valve an also dump fuel.
I have the seloc manual. No much troubleshooting info. I will try your recomendation. Thanks
 

Scott Danforth

Grumpy Vintage Moderator still playing with boats
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The seloc manual is best as a fire starter or knee pads. It will work as toilet paper in a pinch

However as a manual, they are not worth the paper
 

Rick Stephens

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Appears you have a spread bore intake... probably means a Quadrajet carburetor. Dump the Seloc. If you want to purchase a hard manual I found them here.
 
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