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December 5, 2020 at 5:28 am #224285
billw
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    To answer the question if I have ever seen a bad OMC reed, the answer is yes; but it’s been VERY rare, and mostly on 25/30/35, “later model” engines from the late 70’s and 80’s. The failures I saw were a reed snapped off. This resulted in a cylinder that was totally dead and would blow a considerable amount of fuel mix back out the front of the carb. If I ever had a reed that was whole but was just not sealing properly, I never knew it.

    Long live American manufacturing!