About To Rebuild The Carbs On My Mercury 115 Hp

[skunked_again]

Tips? It's a 6 cylinder.

[Ozark_Basser]

I've thought about doing this on my own 6 cylinder. I'm interested as well.

[Way2slow]

The only way you are going to learn is by doing it. Then you can figure out if it's something you can do yourself. A carb is a very simple device but if you are not very knowledgeable of exactly how they work and what all you have to do when cleaning and rebuilding one, then how to adjust them when done, it will probably drive you nuts trying to get the motor to run right when done. You will be back on here asking what's wrong with it, you just rebuilt the carbs, but it just won't run right, so there has to be something else wrong. Which there could be, but it's highly likely the carbs are screwed up.

It's also a great feeling if you get them right, the motor runs perfect and you just saved a few hundred bucks by doing them yourself. Things can go either way, but I do encourage anyone to always at least try to do as much as they can themselves.

I've always said If man made it, I can fix it, and that knowledge didn't come by paying someone else to do everything for me. Ever since I was a kid, I've pulled stuff apart just to see how it was made, and at almost 69 years old I still do. I figure if I'm going to have to buy a new part to fix something, what am I out of if I take the old one apart first to see if I can fix it, and many time I do fix it for pennies of what the new one would cost, sometimes it's totally destroyed when it was not designed to be taken apart, but I do anyway.

[Chief 2]

First get a blow up pic of the carb. Next have a place that you can lay everything out and make sure you use lint free cloths to clean the parts. One piece of lint stuck in a jet will screw things up. I know from experience. Use a good carb cleaner and try to blow out all the passages. I use a welding tip cleaner to get into some of the small passages. Make sure you change out the fuel filter too. Take your time and enjoy doing it. When your finished you will have a sense of satisfaction knowing you saved some hard earned $$.

[skunked_again]

Job was super easy. Much less work than the old Motorcraft needle point carbs. I used ultra duster in a can to blow stuff out over my compressor. Much more contained.