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KULTULZ · 06-17-2025, 01:29 PM

Try this -

Before attempting to start, run the electric pump until you hear it stop (system has been pressurized). Cut the pump, set the choke and see if it starts as it normally would/should.

If the pump (as a primer) is wired off a simple ON/OFF SW, and you forget to turn it off after start, you may have some serious safety concerns.

There is a filter before the electric pump? It is inline (no gas by-pass line) with correct flow-thru rating?

06-17-2025, 01:29 PM	#14
KULTULZ Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: IN A GALAXIE FAR, FAR AWAY Posts: 7,386	Re: 1954 Mwercury 256 hrd starting Try this - Before attempting to start, run the electric pump until you hear it stop (system has been pressurized). Cut the pump, set the choke and see if it starts as it normally would/should. If the pump (as a primer) is wired off a simple ON/OFF SW, and you forget to turn it off after start, you may have some serious safety concerns. There is a filter before the electric pump? It is inline (no gas by-pass line) with correct flow-thru rating? __________________ ***** "Last Sunday, I caught him makin' eyes at Idell Bushey durin' preachin'. And I know what they do up there in the hills when they say they're possum huntin'. They're just sittin' around the campfire, drinkin' hard cider, hittin' each other on the shoulder and hollerin' 'flinch!'." ― Charlene Darling (Daughter of Briscoe Darling)