Recent content by Controlled Burn420

Hello All, after such good recommendations for my last problem, I had to try this again. After reading another post about oil pressure, I think I might have a problem. My oil pressure gauge always reads 40Psi and the only time it moves from that is during start up. I'm now thinking the only...

Thanks Jim! Just a few minutes after my last post I added some carb-choke cleaner. Shut the engine down and restarted a few times, it sucked the crap out of it and now idles better than it has for years. I sprayed some choke cleaner with it running and off, saw lots of deposits break loose...

I have looked everything over and don't see anything missing or lose. I have also disconnected several components while running, and sprayed WD40 around most everything while running. No unexpected changes.

I have a 1996 502mag, the engine has been bulletproof for the 443 (fresh water) hours and 223 I have put on it. Only one issue, occasional idle fluctuation until now. This is the first weekend I have taken the boat out and it started fine, ran fine and idled fine for abour 5 minutes on the hose...