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Yes the caps come off. Just some springs above the valves.
When it’s flooded and you shut the mixture screw all the way
the motor should start after a bit and run a little till all the
gas is burned up. Yours doesn’t. The carb has been pretty
much eliminated here. If there is an issue with your carburetor
you won’t know till you can get it to start. Unless there is
some damage, dirt is about the only thing that could give you
a problem. Not much to it.
Tubs.
Misspoke about about the carb couldn’t be the problem. It still needs to control the air.
The fact that the caps are torn up is an indicator that someone who had no idea what
he was doing has been into this motor. You need to remove the caps and check they
are not cross threaded and they have gaskets, any indication the springs have been
meas with, or any damage to the valves or seats so the cant seal. If the valves don’t
seal it won’t start.
Tubs.
I was running a Speedster, that wasn’t having any starting or running issues,
when I noticed one of the valve stems was missing. No idea how long it had
been gone. As I was 1400+ miles from home and the seat was also damaged.
I just put it back together. It ran fine for another 4 or 5 days before it started
to show signs that it was time to take it off the boat before I ended up rowing
back. In my experience there would really need to be some obvious damage
if it is the mixer. These aren’t really a carburetor.
Tubs.
I know I ran it at least 8 hours after I found the stem was
missing and have no idea how long it ran before that.
I was beginning to think it would last the summer but
when it started missing now and then I thought it best
to run something else as I’m not a big fan of rowing.
Tubs.
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