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The parts prices for some of those motors are expensive, if they haven’t gone NLA… I just had a 3. 5 Merc 4 stroke in the shop last week. It had sat with ethanol fuel, that ruined the fuel shut off valve (melted) and really did a number on the carb. Nothing a can of Powertune won’t clean, so no worries there. The price of the carb kit was $86 from Mercury, that included a float, bowl gasket and inlet needle. It also needed a fairly expensive fuel shut off valve. Of course then you hope you have all of those tiny passages in the carb clean when you get it back together and pull the starter rope… seems like I see ”part is no longer available” on some of the Merc/Tohatsu motors I work on, from time to time.