Reply To: 7.5 Mercury carb issues

[billw]

Here is a picture of the book’s rendition of setting the float level. Sorry I didn’t rotate the image. I never saw one of those carbs that didn’t have the spring in the float valve, except the ones on my 50, which I put in myself, to stop the exact problem you’re having. Don’t ask me what float valve I used though. They might have been out of a Yamaha…

Sometimes you can put a strip of 3/4″ wood high in the back side of the clamp brackets, to cheat the transom angle to be closer to normal.

Long live American manufacturing!