Hello all:
Last week my daughter and I went our for a weekend cruise. My boat had been idle for a few weeks as I had been replacing chainplates after a two week Delta cruise. During that trip I had put about 25-30 hours on the engine and it ran fine. The gas in the tank was put in at the end of that cruise about a month ago.
I now have to crank the engine for like 2-3 minutes, then it finally starts like normal, and then runs like a champ.
It will start fine 2-3 hours later, and even the next day (like it did last weekend). But after 3-4 days we did a mid-week beer can race this week, and the same thing happened. Hard to start, then runs fine.
I'm thinking this is a fuel problem?
I have a Sierra water filter, and a polishing filter right upstream of the carb. I was thinking I'd replace both and run some fuel through the carb.
Any other suggestions? Fuel pump is mechanical.
Thanks,
Chris
Last week my daughter and I went our for a weekend cruise. My boat had been idle for a few weeks as I had been replacing chainplates after a two week Delta cruise. During that trip I had put about 25-30 hours on the engine and it ran fine. The gas in the tank was put in at the end of that cruise about a month ago.
I now have to crank the engine for like 2-3 minutes, then it finally starts like normal, and then runs like a champ.
It will start fine 2-3 hours later, and even the next day (like it did last weekend). But after 3-4 days we did a mid-week beer can race this week, and the same thing happened. Hard to start, then runs fine.
I'm thinking this is a fuel problem?
I have a Sierra water filter, and a polishing filter right upstream of the carb. I was thinking I'd replace both and run some fuel through the carb.
Any other suggestions? Fuel pump is mechanical.
Thanks,
Chris
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