hankthecrank
Well-known member
Hi all. I bought a pig in a poke, motor looks like new , supposedly only used about 20 hours. I'm buying a new boat, a G3 1648 welded hull and I bought this motor to use on it. I took the motor to my local shop to have it looked over. I've been a mechanic for 40 years, so it didn't scare me to work on it but I wanted a boat mechanic to check it out. He called and said he put the impeller in , changed out the gear oil, put new fuel line on and started it up. He had trouble getting it to idle and found the idle screw was installed wrong. Got that fixed and ran it a while then started opening her up. At 3/4 throttle it starts blubbering and acts like it has a fuel issue. Will not run clean, acts like iho that its getting too much fuel. He called me and I remember the seller saying his father in law put the 30 hp kit on it. He also mentioned the prop, something about it being changed as part of the kit. The mech said he thought it had the 30 carb on it. He said he legally can't open the intake up, I could if I wanted to. Now the intake thats on it is the intake with the keyhole slot in the opening so I had already figured on opening that up. I've been looking at part numbers for carbs, jets and intakes and it looks like anything will fit anything. Ive read a lot of the threads already and I think I've got a handle on things, but the part numbers have me confused. It looks like the main jet is behind the fuel inlet and there are 3 different ones. The 20 hp intake is selling for 20.00?, and the other two sell for over 150.00? I've read enough to to make me think I'm gonna open up the intake and try her out. Any thoughts and input would be welcome. Hank