Marinette Boat Forum

Look down the throat of the carb and pump the throttle. If there is gas in the float bowl the accelerator pump will squirt gas .

As Jeff says that is probably to heat the carb, or actually the little coil that takes the automatic choke off. If the valves don't seal, I would depress the spring to open each valve and look at each one. It's easy to lap them and clean them and re-assemble. If they are real bad you will have to re...

Sounds like the head was not torqued, so the gasket did not seal and everything leaked. The old gasket may still be good, after all it has never been used. The correct way to torque a head is to do the final tightening from the middle working out to the ends in a staggered pattern. Go to the library...

Your clean living has paid off. Never happens for the rest of us. You have an easy one to fix. As Mr. Rice stated above: oil, heat, vice grips.

Not cast or welded in. Can you put a picture of it on here? ( I was thinking that you don't have studs into the manifold , but bolts that go into it.) Anyway, you are going to learn about penetrating oil, easy outs, left hand drills and clean living and dirty words. First , soak it with penetrating ...

There are instructions on this site about posting pics, just use the search feature to find them.

You'll find more knowledge on this site. More boats for sale on the other. Most have been sitting for years, now they want to sell.
Passed on your message, lets see if it works. Then you can spend even more time on the computer and it will be my fault.

K-Y or use liquid soap as lube, whichever you have.

Had my new tank built as large as possible. Old rectangular tank came out the rear hatch. New one went back in the same way.

A pretty Aft can be beddy beddy nice.