Part of me feels that Mercury may of given me the wrong information. I have a 1977 Mercury 7.5 manual start short shaft tiller outboard. Mercury gave me a parts number for a "Mercury Mercruiser Quicksilver" carb repair parts kit. My SN and parts kit number are below. Is this correct?
SN: 4743785
Parts number: 879194026
As a side note if this is the correct parts number how hard is the carb rebuild on this? I've never had good luck with carbs. I "had" an outboard mechanic until he told me he couldn't find a rebuild kit and decided not to take it to fix. This carb was supposedly rebuilt by previous owner and is spitting out gas where the air goes in causing it to choke on itself and die. They either did it wrong or didn't do it at all.
SN: 4743785
Parts number: 879194026
As a side note if this is the correct parts number how hard is the carb rebuild on this? I've never had good luck with carbs. I "had" an outboard mechanic until he told me he couldn't find a rebuild kit and decided not to take it to fix. This carb was supposedly rebuilt by previous owner and is spitting out gas where the air goes in causing it to choke on itself and die. They either did it wrong or didn't do it at all.