Swapping Chokes for primers?

[rgardner928]

What's everyone's take on swapping chokes for primers?

Has anyone ever done this?

Do you regret it was it a beneficial change?

Was it a big time-consuming headache to do was a pretty easy?

If so what part did you use to do the change?

 

[Matt Braley]

Primers would be a lot of work and likely a downgrade. A good running engine starts pretty quickly with the choke. It would take a mile of 3/32" line and the primers love to fail letting air into the fuel line.

 

[rgardner928]

Mile??? Seriously it would only take about 10' +/- per engine. Lol

And this doesn't look like a lot of work to me.

I'm just trying to understand the differences. Pro vs Cons

 

[mikidymac]

There are no pro's. THere isn't a primer made that won't fail in a couple years.

As Matt B. said if your fuel system and carbs are clean and correct as they should be the choke is perfect and should not be changed out.

 

[Matt Braley]

I'm not sure where you where considering mounting the primers but there is 2 hoses per primer. On a twin engine Speedster that's 40ft of fuel filled hose(aka "a mile") that the boat was never designed to have running next to it's wiring.
Even if the primer was working perfectly you would be pumping forever before you got a squirt of fuel to the carbs and then how would you know your not flooding the carbs? 2 squirts is perfect but 4 squirts or more and your flooded.

Even a clean installation would still be considered a hack job on that boat. It would be a ton of work with no benefit and it would lower the value in my opinion.

 

[mikidymac]

I'm not sure where you where considering mounting the primers but there is 2 hoses per primer. On a twin engine Speedster that's 40ft of fuel filled hose(aka "a mile") that the boat was never designed to have running next to it's wiring.
Even if the primer was working perfectly you would be pumping forever before you got a squirt of fuel to the carbs and then how would you know your not flooding the carbs? 2 squirts is perfect but 4 squirts or more and your flooded.

Even a clean installation would still be considered a hack job on that boat. It would be a ton of work with no benefit and it would lower the value in my opinion.

So your saying he should do it? LOL.