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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3389160" data-attributes="member: 5412">Haven’t been without a boat since the late 70’s. Became pretty adept at working on the 2 stroke motors. Pretty simple actually. Some boat repair companies will take one to the cleaners for a simple fix. Latest is a 185 tracker with two consoles. Incredibly hard to start. Just about run the battery down to get it to start. Guy couldn’t sell it so I got it for a good deal. He had been told the compression was down and a $2000.00 rebuild was in order. Long story short, the issue was a gasket in the fuel pump. Those fuel pumps work on vacuum and a series of diaphragms very similar to a bigger Koehler engine in a ZTR. It just wasn’t getting fuel. Starts and runs like a champ now.</blockquote>