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  • Avoid contaminating your outboard's fuel system by purging the gas line before you start a motor that hasn't been run recently.

    Jerry's Tips 2005

  • Ten seconds later they were on top of us, throwing off a fat, curling wake, the outboard's normally deep roar climbing toward a scream.

    The Empress File Sandford, John, 1944 Feb. 23- 1991

  • Remo caught up to the boat in two strokes, dove, and caught hold of the outboard's whirling propeller with his hands.

    Next Of Kin Sapir, Richard & Murphy, Warren 1981

  • Looping a heaving line round the outboard's cylinder head and hauling alternately on the heaving line and painter, I had both dinghy and outboard up and over in two minutes.

    When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

  • The outboard's not totally underwater [Colin later explained to me that the engine was worth about $15,000] and the fuel line is out of the water. "

    Baltiblogs deirdre 2010

  • The outboard's not totally underwater [Colin later explained to me that the engine was worth about $15,000] and the fuel line is out of the water. "

    Baltiblogs deirdre 2010

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