Greetings all, what a great forum.
We recently became the proud owners of a 1976 P30 and are trying to learn to love our A4. Although the PO has been incommunicando (we bought from a broker), she seems to have been well taken care of; elect ignition, Racor, secondary filter, elect fuel pump, new exhaust, etc.
She started right up, sailed beautifully to her new home (GIYS) and then purred all the way down to and (almost) all of the way back from St Mikes on a recent windless weekend.
The almost part is where things went south on our northern leg. She starved herself ... ok, I starved her ... of fuel and I suspect it is because I let her run down to the last couple of gallons in the tank.
I drained the Racor bowl and it looked pretty bad. I have ordered new filters, manual, etc from MMI and plan to go to work on cleaning out the tank but would like to take my time with that as my available time on the boat is a bit limited and we don't want to miss too much of fall, our best sailing season on the bay. BTW, I read on another forum where flushing the tank with varnish remover, after leaving it in a few days, helps (?).
I'd really just like to know if I can get by with replacing the filters and jury rigging a plastic outboard tank (to be temporarily mounted in the sail locker) as I spend time either cleaning out or (gulp) replacing the old tank. Any thoughts/suggestions/experience in this regard?
Sorry to be so wordy while painting this picture ... on my 3rd cup of coffee and feel a lot of angst, I guess.
Thx much,
P30
We recently became the proud owners of a 1976 P30 and are trying to learn to love our A4. Although the PO has been incommunicando (we bought from a broker), she seems to have been well taken care of; elect ignition, Racor, secondary filter, elect fuel pump, new exhaust, etc.
She started right up, sailed beautifully to her new home (GIYS) and then purred all the way down to and (almost) all of the way back from St Mikes on a recent windless weekend.
The almost part is where things went south on our northern leg. She starved herself ... ok, I starved her ... of fuel and I suspect it is because I let her run down to the last couple of gallons in the tank.
I drained the Racor bowl and it looked pretty bad. I have ordered new filters, manual, etc from MMI and plan to go to work on cleaning out the tank but would like to take my time with that as my available time on the boat is a bit limited and we don't want to miss too much of fall, our best sailing season on the bay. BTW, I read on another forum where flushing the tank with varnish remover, after leaving it in a few days, helps (?).
I'd really just like to know if I can get by with replacing the filters and jury rigging a plastic outboard tank (to be temporarily mounted in the sail locker) as I spend time either cleaning out or (gulp) replacing the old tank. Any thoughts/suggestions/experience in this regard?
Sorry to be so wordy while painting this picture ... on my 3rd cup of coffee and feel a lot of angst, I guess.
Thx much,
P30
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