doug_bryant
Regular Contributor
"Hi guys. I have a question th
"Hi guys. I have a question that I hope someone can shed some light on for me. I have a new 2006 Mercury 8hp 4 stroke that I run on my boat as a kicker. Upon purchase, I plumbed the fuel line to the kicker from my water/fuel seperator. I had an anti syphon valve in the line as well. The motor would die about avery ten minutes or so. IF I ran the motor on the 3 gallon can from Mercury it would run fine. So I removed the syphon valve from the seperator and that didn't help. Next I bipassed the seperator and ran the motor directly from the boat's fuel tank. That corrected the problem. My question is: has anyone else had this problem and are the fuel pumps in the smaller motors not strong enough to suck the fuel through the seperator? Thanks for any info provided."
"Hi guys. I have a question that I hope someone can shed some light on for me. I have a new 2006 Mercury 8hp 4 stroke that I run on my boat as a kicker. Upon purchase, I plumbed the fuel line to the kicker from my water/fuel seperator. I had an anti syphon valve in the line as well. The motor would die about avery ten minutes or so. IF I ran the motor on the 3 gallon can from Mercury it would run fine. So I removed the syphon valve from the seperator and that didn't help. Next I bipassed the seperator and ran the motor directly from the boat's fuel tank. That corrected the problem. My question is: has anyone else had this problem and are the fuel pumps in the smaller motors not strong enough to suck the fuel through the seperator? Thanks for any info provided."