Yikes!
Last Sunday, on Memorial Day Weekend, the first outing of the season, we took the family to the gas dock, fueled up 75 gallons, both tanks full. The trip to Lloyd Harbor was about 1 hour, cruised 25 mph at 34-3600 rpm, with strong winds about....Had to throttle up the starboardr engine to get it started at the fuel dock, and also on the return trip. The return trip also showed some loss of power in starboard, and required backing off to 3200 rpm on plane, because of intermittent surging and falling off of the starboard engine when synchronizing (manual). Once at the dock, turned off engines, checked both and found normal oil and gear oil levels, connected the fresh water hose to each engine and individually flushed fresh water by running each engine for 5 minutes... all looked well... and closed up the boat until the next weekend... both engines started on the first turn of the key....Trip fuel consumption was 62 gallons (30 port, 32 stbd)...
Thursday I changed a spreader light, all looked good, the bilge pump emptied out some rain water from the previous few days, no smell of gas...
Friday afternoon, the smell of gas was noticed before entering the boat!...blowers on, shore power off, engine hatch up! Gas in the bilge!
Port engine all good.
Starboard engine...gas drip on rear of port exhaust manifold...
Throttle body, fuel rail, fuel regulator, intake manifold,,all dry...
oil dipstick...completely covered in oil to the very handle!
oil cap: open, look and fresh clear gasoline in the stbd valve cover, PCV valve disconnected, gas in the port valve cover!
THE STBD ENGINE IS FULL OF GAS~! Twin Volvo Penta 5.7 OSXi-DF
An emergency cleanup was done and about 10 gallons of gas were hand-pumped out of the engine, followed by removal of the plugs and cleanup of gushes of gas from several, but not all of the cylinders...
Hauling out today. There is no shortage of theories around the dock....What do you think?
Last Sunday, on Memorial Day Weekend, the first outing of the season, we took the family to the gas dock, fueled up 75 gallons, both tanks full. The trip to Lloyd Harbor was about 1 hour, cruised 25 mph at 34-3600 rpm, with strong winds about....Had to throttle up the starboardr engine to get it started at the fuel dock, and also on the return trip. The return trip also showed some loss of power in starboard, and required backing off to 3200 rpm on plane, because of intermittent surging and falling off of the starboard engine when synchronizing (manual). Once at the dock, turned off engines, checked both and found normal oil and gear oil levels, connected the fresh water hose to each engine and individually flushed fresh water by running each engine for 5 minutes... all looked well... and closed up the boat until the next weekend... both engines started on the first turn of the key....Trip fuel consumption was 62 gallons (30 port, 32 stbd)...
Thursday I changed a spreader light, all looked good, the bilge pump emptied out some rain water from the previous few days, no smell of gas...
Friday afternoon, the smell of gas was noticed before entering the boat!...blowers on, shore power off, engine hatch up! Gas in the bilge!
Port engine all good.
Starboard engine...gas drip on rear of port exhaust manifold...
Throttle body, fuel rail, fuel regulator, intake manifold,,all dry...
oil dipstick...completely covered in oil to the very handle!
oil cap: open, look and fresh clear gasoline in the stbd valve cover, PCV valve disconnected, gas in the port valve cover!
THE STBD ENGINE IS FULL OF GAS~! Twin Volvo Penta 5.7 OSXi-DF
An emergency cleanup was done and about 10 gallons of gas were hand-pumped out of the engine, followed by removal of the plugs and cleanup of gushes of gas from several, but not all of the cylinders...
Hauling out today. There is no shortage of theories around the dock....What do you think?
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