Dirty jets, and possibly a bad impleller. I won't know until I can get it running. I have to steal some metric wrenches from work today in order to remove the carb and soak it. I "assisted" my father 10 years ago doing this on the same motor. This is going to suck.
I already replaced fuel hose and got new gas. And the vent isn't an issue since I realized there's a crack in the tank anyway (at the top, no dripping leaks, just vapor leak).... that will also have to be replaced.
You'll need to tear into the impeller eventually but a good seal on a set of engine muffs and a garden hose should get water circulating enough to fire the thing in your driveway. It's only a 9 hp after all.
90's huh? My newest engine is a '72 Chrysler 20hp and the oldest that I take out on the lake is a '58 Johnson Sea-Horse 7.5HP with the pressure tank setup. That goes on the '53 AlumaCraft that was build at the original factory in St Charles MI.
There's nothing . . . absolutely nothing . . . half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats.
Yeah, if you got running water pushed through muffs you can run it, but if you have it in a barrel, the old fashioned way, you could heat it up.
Funny, though, is I have no interest in being on a boat unless there is some fishing going on. Especially fly fishing for bass and panfish. I need to get the fly tying stuff out again and tie up some bass poppers.
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