"Hi,
I have a Glastron GT18
"Hi,
I have a Glastron GT185, fairly new (50 hours), and it had a problem this weekend that i've not see before.
I've hunted around on the forums, and it seems this problem is reasonably common, but i wanted to start a new thread in case the particulars of this engine are different, etc.
It's a 4.3L mercruiser, and we had it out all day saturday with no probs. Filled her to the brim in the evening, and the next day, warmed her up for 10 minutes, and then she simply stalled. Wouldn't turn over at all, occasionally coughed, but nothing for about 1 hour of attempting to start it.
So walked it back along the beach, got the trailer out, ready to pull her out, and tried it once more - and she started fine and ran for the rest of the day.
I have seen comments about fuel venting etc, but we had tried turning it over a few times with the fuel cap off and it didn't seem to solve the problem.
One thing that is different on this particular day is that we hadn't flushed the engine the night beore. Normally we fill up, take her back and run on the hose for 5 minutes. This time we didn't as we were taking her out less than 12 hours later.
We're not too familiar with the engine yet, so don't know our way around it, but could try some things if we knew what we were looking for.
Is it possible that this was a simple case of fuel tank getting stuck with a vacuum, or a kinked/damaged vent somewhere or could it be more sinister?
any help greatly appreciated.
thanks,"
I have a Glastron GT18
"Hi,
I have a Glastron GT185, fairly new (50 hours), and it had a problem this weekend that i've not see before.
I've hunted around on the forums, and it seems this problem is reasonably common, but i wanted to start a new thread in case the particulars of this engine are different, etc.
It's a 4.3L mercruiser, and we had it out all day saturday with no probs. Filled her to the brim in the evening, and the next day, warmed her up for 10 minutes, and then she simply stalled. Wouldn't turn over at all, occasionally coughed, but nothing for about 1 hour of attempting to start it.
So walked it back along the beach, got the trailer out, ready to pull her out, and tried it once more - and she started fine and ran for the rest of the day.
I have seen comments about fuel venting etc, but we had tried turning it over a few times with the fuel cap off and it didn't seem to solve the problem.
One thing that is different on this particular day is that we hadn't flushed the engine the night beore. Normally we fill up, take her back and run on the hose for 5 minutes. This time we didn't as we were taking her out less than 12 hours later.
We're not too familiar with the engine yet, so don't know our way around it, but could try some things if we knew what we were looking for.
Is it possible that this was a simple case of fuel tank getting stuck with a vacuum, or a kinked/damaged vent somewhere or could it be more sinister?
any help greatly appreciated.
thanks,"