outboard problems

[rudy]

I have a suzuki DT6 outboard id num 00601 923308. My problem is very wet plugs the 6 has two and thy are both very wet. I have been able to start it but it runs for onyl a couple of seconds. I rebuilt the carb all airways and other passeges are clear and the float is not stuck. There seems to be plenty of spark it will jump a old very wide gap test plug and the spark is blue. Could it still be a carb problem help.

 

[B.Smith]

Small Engines

A very simple rule to apply to small engines is this. If you have fuel and no spark, then the problem is electrical. If you have spark and no fuel then the problem is fuel. Since you seem to have too much fuel and it is flooding out I would check the carb again. Make sure that the float does not have any fuel inside it. Good luck.

 

[Bayard Gross]

Since you rebuilt the carb,

you may have reassembled a pin that stops fuel from entering the float chamber upside down. This pin is pushed upward by the float as the float chamber fills with fuel and closes an orafice that fuel enters. If this pin is upside down, this might cause too much fuel to enter the foalt chamber and hence too much fuel for the engine.Another thought is the float mechanism may not have been reassembled properly or the float itself is impregnated with gas and no longer floats well.

 

[Bob]

Water?

Hi Rudy,Also check for water.

 

[John renfro]

o/b

hello rudy,hotter plugs will not do any thing for this situation. You could check that the float is floating high enough to close the needle seat, and as b. smith suggests, check the float. If it is hollow, shake it and listen for fuel splashing around inside it. If it is solid, you have to weight it to test it, and you can try closing your main jet needle down to lean it out.good luckjohn

 

[Dan McGuire]

Fuel

After I put my boat back in the water after my annual pull out, I put in new fuel. When I started the motor, it would not run at idle and would occasionally just die. The motor was running fine just a month earlier. I checked and changed the plug and made some minor mixture adjustments. My multimeter would not fit the spark plug and I actually had to use a plug wrench. I went through a tank of gas in a little over an hour rather than the 8 or 9 hours it should have taken. When I put in new fuel, it ran great. Sometimes even new fuel has problems.