Hello all
It's been quite a while since I posted anything here. I had a different boat for the last 5 years, but am now working on getting my old 1975 Pearson 28 with atomic 4 running well again.
As background the boat in question has been sitting on the hard for at least 2 1/2 years, unmoved. I started working on it about a month ago and have it back in the water. I'll list the chronology of events and work done to it.
I changed the oil in the engine and started it. It ran ok. I had to move the boat to a new mooring about 3 hours away and headed out. After about 1 hour the engine died. 15 minutes later I was able to start it and made it the rest of the way at lower rpm's than I had been running it. It seemed to run fine until it died.
Since then I've pumped out all the old gas and put in 10 gallons of fresh 93 octane gas and some sea foam. I changed the spark plugs, changed the fuel filter, pulled the carb off and cleaned it. It has run well for the last three outings until yesterday. I've been leaving the motor running while sailing as kind of a test. After about 3 hours we headed back to the mooring field and as I throttled down the engine sounded like it might die. I throttled up a bit and it came back to life. I attached to the mooring ball, put it in neutral and returned to idle speed and it died fairly quickly. I was able to start it again after a few minutes.
I'm in Newport harbor with some very expensive boats around me and live in fear of the motor dying while surrounded by many very expensive yachts. Any suggestions would be appreciated greatly. I recall I got some good advice when I sought it many years ago for the same boat.
Sorry this is so long.
It's been quite a while since I posted anything here. I had a different boat for the last 5 years, but am now working on getting my old 1975 Pearson 28 with atomic 4 running well again.
As background the boat in question has been sitting on the hard for at least 2 1/2 years, unmoved. I started working on it about a month ago and have it back in the water. I'll list the chronology of events and work done to it.
I changed the oil in the engine and started it. It ran ok. I had to move the boat to a new mooring about 3 hours away and headed out. After about 1 hour the engine died. 15 minutes later I was able to start it and made it the rest of the way at lower rpm's than I had been running it. It seemed to run fine until it died.
Since then I've pumped out all the old gas and put in 10 gallons of fresh 93 octane gas and some sea foam. I changed the spark plugs, changed the fuel filter, pulled the carb off and cleaned it. It has run well for the last three outings until yesterday. I've been leaving the motor running while sailing as kind of a test. After about 3 hours we headed back to the mooring field and as I throttled down the engine sounded like it might die. I throttled up a bit and it came back to life. I attached to the mooring ball, put it in neutral and returned to idle speed and it died fairly quickly. I was able to start it again after a few minutes.
I'm in Newport harbor with some very expensive boats around me and live in fear of the motor dying while surrounded by many very expensive yachts. Any suggestions would be appreciated greatly. I recall I got some good advice when I sought it many years ago for the same boat.
Sorry this is so long.
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