extrapolator
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Original owner of this Cobalt 226. Since day 1 thru today motor has started immediately and dies once; always starts & remains running upon re-start. I do "help" it with a little throttle. Not sure I should need to do that on a FI engine, but I have since day 1.
I allow the engine 3 - 4 minutes to warm up before motoring along - not sure if this is long enough?
First time trying to plane, some studdering and rough running, but it slowly does plane. This is with somewhat less than WOT; trying to be nice to it as it wakes up.
Once planing, we can motor along fine, but the engine is slightly rough and at say 1/2 throttle or so surges ahead (not surges as in power outages), like I'm punching it momentarily, which of course I'm not; not even touching the throttle.
As the day goes on and the motor has more run-time on it, 1/2 hour, 1 hour, etc, it gets smoother and smoother to where it seems just about perfect for the rest of the day. Very, very slow to wake up would be a good description ... but I've never had an engine take an hour to wake up.
Any ideas?? Live with it? Nothing too bad wrong? Thank you ...
I allow the engine 3 - 4 minutes to warm up before motoring along - not sure if this is long enough?
First time trying to plane, some studdering and rough running, but it slowly does plane. This is with somewhat less than WOT; trying to be nice to it as it wakes up.
Once planing, we can motor along fine, but the engine is slightly rough and at say 1/2 throttle or so surges ahead (not surges as in power outages), like I'm punching it momentarily, which of course I'm not; not even touching the throttle.
As the day goes on and the motor has more run-time on it, 1/2 hour, 1 hour, etc, it gets smoother and smoother to where it seems just about perfect for the rest of the day. Very, very slow to wake up would be a good description ... but I've never had an engine take an hour to wake up.
Any ideas?? Live with it? Nothing too bad wrong? Thank you ...