Natural Bass bait

[176champion]

Mowing yard and thought this was a snake at first.... 

 

 

[MOPanfisher]

Your yard appears to be a little damp yet.

[176champion]

32 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said:

Your yard appears to be a little damp yet.

Had outboard running...was doing a decarbonization on it.....

[fishinwrench]

2-stroke outboards are said to be terrible polluters, but I can tell you that in a spot where they are run almost constantly every day for the last 24 years the grass, clover, dandelions grow like crazy and the worms, frogs and other critters never appeared healthier.  And the well pump output which is 80' directly below that spot tests perfectly fine every other year. Delicious water.

[Jerry Rapp]

5 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

2-stroke outboards are said to be terrible polluters, but I can tell you that in a spot where they are run almost constantly every day for the last 24 years the grass, clover, dandelions grow like crazy and the worms, frogs and other critters never appeared healthier.  And the well pump output which is 80' directly below that spot tests perfectly fine every other year. Delicious water.

there is a lot of common sense contained in this post.

[fishinwrench]

Disclaimer:.  I never use fuel additives or decarbonizers...... (since they don't work anyway), so YOUR worms might die.

[Mitch f]

What about Sea Foam for removing water?

[176champion]

Here is what i used.....1 can of seafoam to 1 gallon of mixed gas ran it for 10 minutes on muffs let it sit for 30 minutes and start back up did this a series of times till 1 gallon of gas was gone....gained 300 rpm on idle side...my outboard has carburetors...

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, Mitch f said:

What about Sea Foam for removing water?

If the fuel has water in it, it gets removed and replaced here.  I can't set idle mixtures or in any way "tune" a engine properly unless the fuel is reasonably fresh and free of contamination.   And I consider any type of additive (Seafoam and Stabil included) as contamination.  

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, 176champion said:

Here is what i used.....1 can of seafoam to 1 gallon of mixed gas ran it for 10 minutes on muffs let it sit for 30 minutes and start back up did this a series of times till 1 gallon of gas was gone....gained 300 rpm on idle side...my outboard has carburetors...

So what's your theory on what the Seafoam actually did?   Just for the record you can TRY to clean a dirty gummed up carburetor or fuel pump with Seafoam....but it doesn't work. Go ahead and soak it for days, swish it around or whatever but the crud blocking the passageways will still be there.  

As for hard carbon deposits, NOTHING just touches that stuff and makes it go soft and desolve.  Not carb cleaner, not Seafoam, not DECARBONIZING ENGINE TUNER, ......Nothing except hot vaporized H2O (steam) assisted with picks, scrapers, and a stainless steel wire brush will remove carbon.   

If you think I'm bullshittin' ya I'll gladly send you an old piston with stuck rings, or an old exhaust tuner to experiment with.  I promise I've tried everything. 

If by odd chance that running Seafoam through your fuel system truly improves how your engine runs I guarantee that it's only temporary, and that after your motor sits and cools back down your problems will come right back.  Odds are that just running your motor through a gallons worth of fresh fuel with NO Seafoam would have resulted in the same outcome.  Bottom line is that you simply ran it enough to get things warm and moving again. The added Seafoam did nothing but clear some mosquitoes out of your yard.

So it was idling at 7-800 at first and is now idling at 1100 ?