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tony trepanier
Member
Username: tonytrep
Post Number: 5
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Monday, April 07, 2008 - 10:41 pm: | 
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I take my boat out cruising and when I pull back the throttle to dock one of my engines dies. It won't start again until it cools down. Does anyone know what the problem could be or how to fix it? |
steve wade
Member
Username: sawade
Post Number: 17
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 03:03 am: |
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Not enough informaton on boat/engine here. Could be fuel as in pump or could be electrical. You need to do some basic troubleshooting to see if you have fuel and or spark in the right places. |
emac
Visitor
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 05:19 pm: |
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does it otherwise have any trouble starting, or does it start right up, do you have to idle high to shift into gear? |
tony trepanier
Member
Username: tonytrep
Post Number: 6
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 06:16 pm: |
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The engine is a chevy 305 convert with electric ignition. It runs and starts perfectly except for the problem i described above. |
JUST-IN-TIME
Senior Member
Username: justintime
Post Number: 3718
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 08:49 pm: |
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sounds like vapor lock or something electrical is getting warm and not making a connection
clean all electric connections |
Fastjeff
Senior Member
Username: fastjeff
Post Number: 4290
Registered: 09-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 01:16 pm: |
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First of all, you need to do a little trubleshooting! The easiest thing on earth, when it dies, is to pull the coil wire from the distributor and see if there's spark. If so, look at the fuel system. If not, replace the igntion module and see if that gets it.
Jeff |
