Reply To: Struggling under load

[Don]

jeff-register wrote:

I had worked on a surgery table, total rebuild. It kept sticking in the up position. The inside of the hydraulic hose was releasing tiny chunks of hose hanging up the valve body. I know nothing to do with boats. Flushed the system, replaced the hose & it functioned. The inside of the hose was releasing tiny pieces of clear plasitic that looked like cigerattee pack cell a phane, Yea I can’t spell. Replace those lines please & check for old o-rings. Found powdered hose in carbs too, only wet.

Well, Jeff’s post might have to do with surgical tables, but the same theory is applicable to outboards. Just disturbing all the connections, hoses, fuel pump, etc is enough to create debris that could end up in the carb.
The classic OMC example of this is those lovely plastic carb bowls on the large engines…Simply threading the brass jets in and out of the plastic bowls creates plastic debris…So, we have created debris inadvertently while cleaning the carburetor…