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Mystery Shutdown
Afourians,
One other angle that another poster mentioned has me thinking-my feul vent is high on the port stern quarter and it absolutely could have let water into my tank. I have a facett pump and I did drain my filter and found no water-but this exact series of symptoms happened to me last year in similar conditions ON THE SAME TACH and at THE SAME ANGLE OF HEEL. It's nerve wracking and how to tell if it was the OPSs or the vent I'm not sure.
I guess water in the tank would be the primary indicator, but the gas ran clear from the bowl. All of which makes me wonder: how do you install a fuel vent so it can't suck in water?
Our list of culprits is now:
low oil and OPSS Shutdown -would this affect the tach via ignition?
Intermittently failing fuel pump with high electrical draw damaging tach
water in the fuel via vent submersion
I'm thinking the tach failure and the lack of water in the fuel bowl eliminates the fuel vent
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