Motor issues

Had the tank drained and the motor had been running fine off of the 6gallon aux. tank. I dumped about 4 gallons out of the aux tank into the main tank after spending $200 getting all the gas and water out of the main tank. It took forever last weekend to get it running in the yard but I did get it running for 8-10 minutes before I shut it down. Filled it up this morning and was testing it before I took the grand kids out for a ride. Glad I did. It turned over fine but would never run. I ever tried to power crank it. Mashing the button and give it throttle out of gear. Could never get it going. No ideas. Plugs looked like the had oil on them but not gunked up. I took the plugs out to let it sit. Thinking maybe when I hooked up the mIn fuel line, there was water in the line. I have the cover to my carbs off. Can't tell much. Any ideas? Think it may be water and I can get carb cleaner and spray into the intakes.

Do you have an external fuel/water separator?


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Chokes working?

I sure don't, Merc 125 motor . Same motor Torch has.

I assume the choke is working. I guess it's working

You need to sell that thing and start again, its been a pain in the tail for a while!!!!! Is it insured???

Lol yeh. It's insured.

Get some carb and choke cleaner. Spin engine while spraying. If it cranks you have fuel issues. Check kill switch


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Brand new gas and just had the tank pumped out. I remember last night that yesterday, I traded out Kill switches. Mine was shredded so I got a new one and put on it. That mayyyyy be the problem. Gonna put the old one back on and try it

Water in the carbs. After getting my tank drained last week, I guess there was water in the line from the tank to the bulb. Took everything apart, even the carbs out. Took the drain screw out of each carb, drained them good, Sprayed them with carb cleaner heavy and got it all out back together without any left over screws. Lol The gas in the carbs was white, full of water. Letting it air out abit before I try and crank it.

Always have to remember to get the bad gas out of the line before you try to start the motor! Used to have that problem EVERY spring until I started running my outboard out of gas at the end of the season.

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Originally Posted by BarryG

Always have to remember to get the bad gas out of the line before you try to start the motor! Used to have that problem EVERY spring until I started running my outboard out of gas at the end of the season.

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Barry on older engines with premix that's ok but newer 2 strokes starve for oil when they starve for gas. Just my 02 cents


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Was still missing a little but fish able until I hit an oyster bed and spun a prop. That's 4 boats at the ramp where our house it today that got tore up. One guy got towed in with a broke timing belt

Dang man! That sucks!!!


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bad time

Sounds rough.

I mix my oil n gas myself. Just don't trust the it to do it. Boats in the shop after I got it running and I hit some bridge pilings that were left under the highway 90 bridge. Spun the prop. They're not busy and said they could have it ready tomorrow. Taking the carbs out, cleaning good, new gaskets n such, plus the prop rehubbed. Sure it'll be 500-600 bucks

WOW!!! There should have been some kind of warning buoy or something by those pilings.

Nope. Nothing there. They used all the debris from the bridges to make reefs. I researched ALOT and no mention of this location