reed cages and yamabond

[isnms]

'70 Mercury 1150 inline 6, sn: 2840981 <br />I've had trouble starting my Merc. I finally got it started last weekend by using come carb cleaner. I figured I need to review my starting procedure after finding posts similar to this:<br />

Originally posted by sundog:<br />ZmOz is right...<br />basically-<br />-squeeze bulb until hard, then 2 or 3 more squeezes (basically until fuel is coming out the carbs<br />-motor tucked under<br />-idle lever to 1/2 thru full (play with this one)<br />-choke engine mine's an enricher - 5 seconds and hold while<br />-turn key<br />-if it dosnt catch, in 10secs, rest of a min, repeat above.....

After letting it warm up I was Not able to have it maintain idle with warm up lever down in the normal position.<br />I'm thinking I now need to set the Idle Speed and Idle Mixture.<br /><br />While researching I ran across this post about the reeds and something called Yamabond. Can someone tell me more about this procedure?<br /><br /> http://www.iboats.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=29;t=003096#000000 <br />

Originally posted by indydan:<br />All this talk about in-lines starting hard suprises me. Only because I thought it was old news & everyone new the big mystery of there starting trouble. In my experience every hard starting in-line was fixed by taking the motor down, buy a tube of yamabond & goo-up the cases right where the reed cages are fit to the case & then the leak down between cylinders is gone & they start like there fuel injected. The older they get the bigger the chatter marks the worse they start.

 

[Clams Canino]

Re: reed cages and yamabond

He's 1/2 right. <br /><br />A little Yammabond where the reed-blocks seat to the crankcase helps to cure *one* of the three low RPM and starting leak problems. However, this assumes that the inside of the reed-blocks where they meet the crank is good, and that the reeds themselves are good.<br /><br />But as part of a comprehensive program to fix hard starting he's right about that part.<br /><br />-W