Re: 1975 Evinrude Mate

[shane-r13]

Wow tons of information here. Thank you!!!

When I cleaned the carb. I suppose i did it the lazy way. I soaked it in carb cleaner for a few days. Changed the gasket, float and needle and seat, along with the packing in the high and low needles. My kit did not come with the welch plug so therefore I did not change it. I will have to look into changing that since its never likely been done.

I generally run seafoam on the first fishing trip of the year in all my motors. This year I did not in this motor as I put new rings into in the winter and have only used it once for a trolling motor this year. The rest has been playing with it in a barrel.

Fuel flow from the tank to the carb is good. its pours out when fuel line is disconnected from the carb. I also cleaned the shutoff valve and the tank it self when cleaning the carb. The tank is plastic on this model just an FYI.

As for the crank seal. That is always possible. This motors crank seal came off another parts motor I had so its not new by any means. But it "looked" ok, which generally doesn’t mean much haha.

So in short, I think I’ll buy another carb kit with the welch plug, new head gasket (since the one i have is who knows how old – cant hurt to replace), double check the fuel from tank to carb, and look into a crank seal. They are not to hard to change but it takes a bit of time. Hopefully doing one of those helps. Oh and then I’ll have to adjust the needles again but thats easy.

Another thing to add to the winters projects list!

Thanks for the wealth of knowledge and the links!
Shane