After being a member here for all of three years, I’m an expert, really. But OMC  10 hp motors are evil. For one thing, there is a bushing in the low speed jet hole (for some reason) that just spins in place when you try to seat the needle.

I have read somewhere here, I think, to carefully assemble the needle packings onto the low speed jet and then turn the bushing on a couple of threads, then insert the whole lot into the carb, tighten the packing nut just enough to keep the bushing from turning, tighten down the needle to it’s seat, back it off to the proper initial setting, then tighten the packing nut to fix it in place.

I have made several attempts. Got it to work once but had to undo the packing nut to install the air breather/silencer. Stopped working.

Has anyone ever just epoxied the thing in place?

Suggestions??

Thanks.