Re: Carb Rebuild on a ’58 7.5 Johnson

[cron78]

Thanks for the replies.

I haven’t rebuilt a carb since my old ’75 Scirocco carb circa 1980. I suspected that perhaps they needed to be wet with something. They are hard and fragile. I split one just pulling it out of the hole after just pushing it in flush with the edge. Luckily there are a couple extra in the kit. I’ll give the two cycle soak a try.

The old ones I pulled out for the rebuild just crumbled away. I guess they are akin to the old oakum packing in ship timbers.

Already ordered an official OMC/BRP kit for next time.