Honda outboard advice

Anthonyexmouth

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Just picked up a cheap BF5 A and although it starts and runs ok it won't idle very well, guessing it's a dirty carb but I've also noticed a water leak coming from underneath the condenser, dribbles down when running. Is this likely to be a head gasket or is there something else there that could be leaking?
one other thing is the manual start cog is just clipping/tinging the flywheel. Is this an easy fix?

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Not tried that, I did clean the carb and seems to be running better now. Not a fan of outboards, only got this through necessity. It is kinda slow picking up revs from tick-over though. Here is it running flat out.
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