New motor

I bought a 2002 Mercury 9.9 hp motor a few weeks ago. I bought it from Jim Vaughn. He is my solar consultant at work. It is a motor that he said he has not used in 3 years. It was his dingy motor that he no longer has. The motor has supposedly had very few hours on it. It is a pull start motor without an alternator, so it means I want have to hook it to the battery.

My dad assisted me trying to start it. We put gas in the tank and tried to pull start it. It did not even try to pop. We talked my dad's neighbor Todd (house directly behind his) into letting us borrow a can of spray carburetor cleaner. After spraying the carburetor cleaner into the the carburetor, it started right up.

I am a happy man.