Hello!
I had a weird experience with my atomic 4 today. We were arriving at a marina so we turned on the motor to lower the sails. After a few minutes, the motor shut down unexpectedly. We tried to turn it on again, unsuccessfully. Hopefully, another sailboat was there to carry us to a dock where we could try to figure out what was happening.
So, after some tests, we figure out we had sparks, and we had fuel going in the carburetor. But we thought that there wasn’t fuel going into the cylinder (without being completely sure). So our conclusion was that the carburetor was maybe plugged somehow, and that I had to clean it.
But a few hours later, without doing having done anything (except drinking a few beers to forget our misfortune), I tried to turn the motor on again, and it did! Everything is going great now. So I’m even more confused. How could the motor not work in the afternoon, but later on did?
Thanks again for your help everyone!
I had a weird experience with my atomic 4 today. We were arriving at a marina so we turned on the motor to lower the sails. After a few minutes, the motor shut down unexpectedly. We tried to turn it on again, unsuccessfully. Hopefully, another sailboat was there to carry us to a dock where we could try to figure out what was happening.
So, after some tests, we figure out we had sparks, and we had fuel going in the carburetor. But we thought that there wasn’t fuel going into the cylinder (without being completely sure). So our conclusion was that the carburetor was maybe plugged somehow, and that I had to clean it.
But a few hours later, without doing having done anything (except drinking a few beers to forget our misfortune), I tried to turn the motor on again, and it did! Everything is going great now. So I’m even more confused. How could the motor not work in the afternoon, but later on did?
Thanks again for your help everyone!
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