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My mind is blown. You’re right! That makes sense. Its probably all residue this whole time. I knew it looked too black and it drips out after I shut it off just like you described. I rebuilt the lower unit twice! Argh. But this is the first outboard and 2 stroke I’ve ever worked on so…moving on I guess. I rebuilt the carb but I didn’t adjust the new float so could that cause it to burn extra gas? It also will intermittently puke gas out of the front of carb when I’m priming it. Thought I fixed that with the rebuild but it recently happened again. Could that also be the float? It definitely feels like it’s running rough most of the time. Every once in a while it will Rev super high for a minute, then it wants to stall out. At high rpm, I’m burning through a gallon of gas in like 10 mins.