Alright, so this was my grandpa's boat. It sat for a few years before he died and I got it. I had the carbs rebuilt last year, new batteries, and took it out. It ran really good the first part of the day, then almost sank. Apparently the hose that drains the livewell was disconnected in the hull, so the boat was slowly filling up with water all day. By the time I noticed it'd come up to where that hose was supposed to drain out and was really coming in fast. Water was lapping over the back of the boat. (it's a late 80's glasstream). So we try to high tail it out of there, but even with the gas pegged it wouldn't break plane and was really slow. But we managed to get it out of there.
I rerouted and fixed the hoses so it wouldn't leak and installed a new bilge pump. Took it out yesturday and it fired right up. But still ran like it was under a serious load before dying and wouldn't crank again. I'd also replaced the plugs and cleaned the fuel filter before leaving. It'd ran fine when parked in the drive way on the hose.
I don't even know where to start looking for problems now. Any ideas? What if you need more info, what do you need?
It's a 40hp oil injected, but my grandpa removed the oil injector part so I premix my gas, 50:1. Two cylinder, 88 or 89 year model.
I rerouted and fixed the hoses so it wouldn't leak and installed a new bilge pump. Took it out yesturday and it fired right up. But still ran like it was under a serious load before dying and wouldn't crank again. I'd also replaced the plugs and cleaned the fuel filter before leaving. It'd ran fine when parked in the drive way on the hose.
I don't even know where to start looking for problems now. Any ideas? What if you need more info, what do you need?
It's a 40hp oil injected, but my grandpa removed the oil injector part so I premix my gas, 50:1. Two cylinder, 88 or 89 year model.