Here's one for you, twice now, I was cruzing on step and had to throttle back for big wakes caused by the Alaska Ferry boats. As I throttled back (both times) the wakes rocked by boat (a bigger rocking that usual, these ferrys put out about a 4' wake) and my motor stalled out and refused to start. It appeared to be flooded but I am not sure about this. First time it happened I tinkered with the throttle, squirted a ton of gas down the carb and eventually got it started. Second time this happen, I could not get the motor restarted (even after squirting starter fluid down the carb) and had to use the kicker to get back to port.. The boat has been out of the water for two days now and I still can not get the darn thing started.
I pulled the spark plugs and they appear dry, not heavly coated (they were changed last year). Fuel is getting to the carb and appears to be vaporizing just fine. All spark plug wires are new and tight and the distributor was replaced last year.
The motor itself usually starts on the first turn of the key but is a bugger to warm up and I have to use alot of throttle (at about 1200 rpm) to keep it running until it is warmed up to 175 degrees... The motor runs very ruff during this time but once the temp hits 175 the motor calms down, it idles at 600 rpm without stalling out and for the rest of the day it will start up just fine. But once it gets cold, ...what a pain... Also, when it is cold started...lots of smoke,,,but the smoke goes away after a few minutes and It doesn't appear to be burning any oil...What could be wrong???
I pulled the spark plugs and they appear dry, not heavly coated (they were changed last year). Fuel is getting to the carb and appears to be vaporizing just fine. All spark plug wires are new and tight and the distributor was replaced last year.
The motor itself usually starts on the first turn of the key but is a bugger to warm up and I have to use alot of throttle (at about 1200 rpm) to keep it running until it is warmed up to 175 degrees... The motor runs very ruff during this time but once the temp hits 175 the motor calms down, it idles at 600 rpm without stalling out and for the rest of the day it will start up just fine. But once it gets cold, ...what a pain... Also, when it is cold started...lots of smoke,,,but the smoke goes away after a few minutes and It doesn't appear to be burning any oil...What could be wrong???