Splashed today!

Heefus · Post by **Heefus** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:41 pm

Everything went great, except the damn starboard engine kept dying again.

We made it out of the marina, and into open water, before it decided it didn't want to play anymore. I got her running, with a liberal dose of carb cleaner, and pulled back into the marina. Ran a jumper, to the coil, and she fired right back up...then wouldn't start again.

Took the top off of the carb, and found a ton of gunk in there. Main jets were clogged, and the accelerator jets weren't squirting at all. Pulled it off, brought it home, and I am going to disassemble/clean, and blow out the passages in the morning. That should rectify the situation!

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:19 pm

Just the spring time bugs to work out . Check the fuel filters too .

Heefus · Post by **Heefus** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:59 pm

That's the funny thing. The filter, in the carb, was clean. All this crap was in the bowls. The accelerator pump wasn't squirting either. Hopefully it is just clogged at the nozzle, otherwise I have to track one down.

The Dog House · Post by **The Dog House** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:32 pm

My Chrysler 225 (318) manual recommends turning off the fuel and running the carb dry for winterization. I've always done this with my snowblower and it always starts no problem the next winter. Did you run the carbs dry or leave gas in them?

Heefus · Post by **Heefus** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:34 pm

They had treated fuel in them.

On a side note, looks like the PO put Edelbrock 1406's in there. This is an auto carb (1409 is the 600 CFM marine version), and it does not make me happy.

I know that people will argue left and right, over the safety of an auto carb, so I am not going to venture into all that. I know he swapped them out about 5 years ago, and has run like this since then. The upside is that they have USCG spark arrestors on them, the downside is that they are not marine approved. I think I am going to have to run them, until I can pony up the cash for 1409s, and run the blower for a couple extra minutes prior to starting.

*cliff notes* Found auto carbs, will replace when possible, but will carefully run till then.

Freddy · Post by **Freddy** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:23 am

how much fuel was left in the tanks over the winter? did you add fuel stabilizer? when i worked at a boatyard i saw this exact thing happen again and again after the e10 gasoline came out. be a shame to rebuild that carb just to gunk it up again.

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:07 am

This type of proplem happened long before E 10 . yes E10 made it worse but this has always been a proplem . If we ran our boats every day like our cars fuel issues would be almost unheard of .

Allen Sr · Post by **Allen Sr** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:16 am

prowlersfish wrote:This type of proplem happened long before E 10 . yes E10 made it worse but this has always been a proplem . If we ran our boats every day like our cars fuel issues would be almost unheard of .

+1

Heefus · Post by **Heefus** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:43 am

Headed out to pick up the rebuild kit, then down to the marina to clean her out and fix her up. Wish me luck!

EM63 · Post by **EM63** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 3:17 pm

I'll wish you very much - same procedure happens with our portside

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Greetings - Heiner

Heefus · Post by **Heefus** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 4:01 pm

That was actually very easy. Edelbrocks are very simple. It took me about an hour from start to finish, including all the adjustments. Headed to the marina to slap her on then, hopefully, fire her up!

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 4:02 pm

Allen Sr wrote:
prowlersfish wrote:This type of proplem happened long before E 10 . yes E10 made it worse but this has always been a proplem . If we ran our boats every day like our cars fuel issues would be almost unheard of .
+1

++1, run dry if you lay them up for the winter or run all 3 engines for 30 mins every two weeks, it's help me out with the gas troubles.. And good luck this week end ..

Heefus · Post by **Heefus** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:08 am

Success!

She fired right up, no more stumbling/hesitation, and no more random shut downs. I could not be more happy right now.

We spent the night out, on the hook, rafted up with a good buddy. Caught a few catfish, drank a few beers, and had a good time all around. Headed back down shortly to move her to the new marina, then I gotta pack to go to Chicago tomorrow. It is a nice feeling knowing that all I have to do, when I get back, is turn the key and motor away.

rooferdave · Post by **rooferdave** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:14 pm

The Dog House wrote:My Chrysler 225 (318) manual recommends turning off the fuel and running the carb dry for winterization. I've always done this with my snowblower and it always starts no problem the next winter. Did you run the carbs dry or leave gas in them?

I have wanted to do this also, the problem I have is when we winterize we have to run the engines to draw antifreeze in, and to run the carbs dry, it would blow out the antifreeze, this is what has prevented me from doing it,