I have this picture, but those are coilpacks right? I don't have a distributor as far as I knew...
If I do have a distributor, where would it be?
As far as an electric choke, I have no idea. This is the first thing I've owned that's not had EFI.
The 10 times or so I'd driven the boat since I've owned it, I've never had to pump the throttle before starting it. I would turn the key in neutral and it would start right up perfectly. And it would then run in gear with no lugging or anything. It's only now after it sat 2 weeks. But it had sat a week previously with no issues.
The high idle was around 1200 to 1300 RPM's. I can't say that there was a specific pattern that I noticed of when it would do it though. Sometimes just after cruising a little in gear. But I really didn't notice a pattern, and it did it a handful of times before this stalling thing started happening. Because it wasn't affecting driveability, I'll admit that I didn't pay as close attention to the high idle stuff. I of course will pay more attention now and report back.
YES, I will most certainly change the fuel filter. when I was at the auto parts store, the guy went out with me to look at the engine because I specifically wanted him to look and see if he could find the fuel filter so I could buy a replacement. It wasn't until I got home that I removed the filter to check for water (none present in the fuel) that I did see that there was a part # on the filter element (metal looking round thing). So I'll pull that off and buy one.
I have a friend that owned a Ford performance shop has a ton of experience rebuilding carb's. I'm sure that if I bought a rebuild kit, pulled the carb and took it over to him he'd be happy to do that for me. Just not sure what I
need to do beyond
1) replace fuel filter
2) observe and record more symptoms
I don't want to
arbitrarily throw money at it (like buying the secondary fuel pump I've read about, or buying the kit that retrofits the pro-tec with a distributor)...