Hi
recently purchased a chaparral 1800 sl in the UK as my first boat. I've had it serviced before using it by a marine spe******t but have had these problems on the first trip out since. For the first 90 mins everything was fine however we had noticed about a 15 knot reduction in top end from the start. We suddenly dropped oil pressure then heard loud knocking noise from engine. We turned it off straight away and had to call another boat to yow us in.
Today now the boat is out the water I levelled her on the trailer then checked the oil levels. The oil seems to be about an inch higher than it should be on the dipstick. Is my problem been caused by the fact it has too much oil in?
recently purchased a chaparral 1800 sl in the UK as my first boat. I've had it serviced before using it by a marine spe******t but have had these problems on the first trip out since. For the first 90 mins everything was fine however we had noticed about a 15 knot reduction in top end from the start. We suddenly dropped oil pressure then heard loud knocking noise from engine. We turned it off straight away and had to call another boat to yow us in.
Today now the boat is out the water I levelled her on the trailer then checked the oil levels. The oil seems to be about an inch higher than it should be on the dipstick. Is my problem been caused by the fact it has too much oil in?