HI, As the title says I have several issues, more if you ask my wife, these all took place on my way home to winter storage. Ran the engine day before, for 2 hrs to charge the batteries, ran fine, ran it for another 2 hrs before leaving the mooring to goto the fuel dock. When I 1st start the engine I always look in the cave, P30, to look it over. Any case I didn't notice anything. Ran it about 1 1/2 to the fuel dock, ran ok. Filled full of gas, all of 9 gallons and wouldn't start. I did notice then water was covering the engine mostly on the port side. I then noticed the exhaust pipe was broke at the top of the run before the water injection. Called Tow Boat and they towed me home. At least I have a full tank of gas.
Tried to start the engine today and again no start, the plugs are very wet and maybe have 5 hrs on them. I have electronic ignition, about 5 years and a new this year coil. I have also put in new this year Carb and a electronic fuel pump, the pressure bulb is hard. I do have the old ignition plate with the breaker and points to see if that fixes it. I do need to install a remote way of starting the engine so I can see whats happening. Anyone have issues with the pertronix ignition kit ? I took off the dist cap and looked inside, didn't see anything weird, except maybe the dist will turn a small amount by twisting the rotor. I will replace the cap and rotor before I replace the ignition.
Since I cannot run the motor to winterize, I took out the impeller, I don't use a thermostat, and ran antifreeze from the manifold down through the engine. No matter how many times I tried to set the water pump cover I could not get it to seal correctly. Access in the P30 is done by feel for this. The little o ring is diffult to keep in the groove. I'm thinking of just cutting a gasket to replace the o ring. Anyone try this?
The last issue is the exhuast pipe I'm soaking the exhaust flange bolts in pb blaster and so far no joy. I do have good access to the exhaust manifold and from what I can see there's 3 bolts to remove. I've never taken any manifold off. I could use some tips to get this done the easiest way possible.
Thanks as always,
Steve
Tried to start the engine today and again no start, the plugs are very wet and maybe have 5 hrs on them. I have electronic ignition, about 5 years and a new this year coil. I have also put in new this year Carb and a electronic fuel pump, the pressure bulb is hard. I do have the old ignition plate with the breaker and points to see if that fixes it. I do need to install a remote way of starting the engine so I can see whats happening. Anyone have issues with the pertronix ignition kit ? I took off the dist cap and looked inside, didn't see anything weird, except maybe the dist will turn a small amount by twisting the rotor. I will replace the cap and rotor before I replace the ignition.
Since I cannot run the motor to winterize, I took out the impeller, I don't use a thermostat, and ran antifreeze from the manifold down through the engine. No matter how many times I tried to set the water pump cover I could not get it to seal correctly. Access in the P30 is done by feel for this. The little o ring is diffult to keep in the groove. I'm thinking of just cutting a gasket to replace the o ring. Anyone try this?
The last issue is the exhuast pipe I'm soaking the exhaust flange bolts in pb blaster and so far no joy. I do have good access to the exhaust manifold and from what I can see there's 3 bolts to remove. I've never taken any manifold off. I could use some tips to get this done the easiest way possible.
Thanks as always,
Steve
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