stinkynathan
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Check this for a back story: https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7410
Prepare for a long diatribe....sorry, I'm a bit frustrated....
I got the carb rebuild kit installed a few weeks back. It ran well in the bucket. We went out fishing Saturday and the motor ran awesome. We even caught a couple fish. It seemed to take a few too many pulls, but I always got it running. So this morning, my last day of Easter break, I figure I'll get up at 6:15 and hit the water. Overcast and 5mph winds....perfect....
Drove the 45 miles to the ramp. It started hard and idled a bit rough, kind of like it was "carb farting" (if you're familiar with the carbed Harley term). I figured it was just being cold blooded since it was about 35F outside. I left it half choked and went to park my truck. Got back and it was still idling away nicely. Pulled away from the ramp, drove about 100 yards, and it died. Pulled it to start....the rope broke (I couldn't make this up). I trolled back to the dock.
I've got the rope changing thing down to a 7 minute science, so that wasn't so bad....but I still can't get the **** thing to run. I noticed the gas line and bulb had some cracks, so I replaced both this morning hoping that the fuel pump was just sucking air. After two hours of chasing down a new fuel line and bulb and adding a HUGE blood blister to my hand, I got back to the water with a new fuel line and bulb, and the motor STILL wouldn't run properly. I knew it wouldn't help, but I swapped in new plugs and I still had the problem.
I suppose I could take a sentence or two to explain the problem. It starts eventually if I pull on it long enough with full choke and the throttle set to about 3/4. On the pull that gets the motor started, it will race since it's at 3/4 throttle, but after that even 3/4 throttle doesn't get it much past a normal 1/2 throttle level. It's a juggling act of working the throttle and the choke to keep her running. Drop the throttle to idle and it will eventually idle slow enough to die. Push the choke in much more than a 1/4 from full and it will choke off and die.
So anyway....my original gas-line-cracks-allowing-air-into-gas theory was shot down, so now I'm going with the rebuild-the-fuel-pump theory. That's the only thing I didn't replace when I did the carb and plugs. Was originally hoping to avoid it since the carb kit was $24 and the fuel pump kit was $40 :shock: Of course, if I would have just rebuilt it back then I wouldn't have spent all morning chasing down parts and trying to get the thing running.
Ideas?
There's my rant/story/diatribe/problem....sorry about the length....I can only vent to my fiancee so much since she's not an engine guru like you guys are.
Prepare for a long diatribe....sorry, I'm a bit frustrated....
I got the carb rebuild kit installed a few weeks back. It ran well in the bucket. We went out fishing Saturday and the motor ran awesome. We even caught a couple fish. It seemed to take a few too many pulls, but I always got it running. So this morning, my last day of Easter break, I figure I'll get up at 6:15 and hit the water. Overcast and 5mph winds....perfect....
Drove the 45 miles to the ramp. It started hard and idled a bit rough, kind of like it was "carb farting" (if you're familiar with the carbed Harley term). I figured it was just being cold blooded since it was about 35F outside. I left it half choked and went to park my truck. Got back and it was still idling away nicely. Pulled away from the ramp, drove about 100 yards, and it died. Pulled it to start....the rope broke (I couldn't make this up). I trolled back to the dock.
I've got the rope changing thing down to a 7 minute science, so that wasn't so bad....but I still can't get the **** thing to run. I noticed the gas line and bulb had some cracks, so I replaced both this morning hoping that the fuel pump was just sucking air. After two hours of chasing down a new fuel line and bulb and adding a HUGE blood blister to my hand, I got back to the water with a new fuel line and bulb, and the motor STILL wouldn't run properly. I knew it wouldn't help, but I swapped in new plugs and I still had the problem.
I suppose I could take a sentence or two to explain the problem. It starts eventually if I pull on it long enough with full choke and the throttle set to about 3/4. On the pull that gets the motor started, it will race since it's at 3/4 throttle, but after that even 3/4 throttle doesn't get it much past a normal 1/2 throttle level. It's a juggling act of working the throttle and the choke to keep her running. Drop the throttle to idle and it will eventually idle slow enough to die. Push the choke in much more than a 1/4 from full and it will choke off and die.
So anyway....my original gas-line-cracks-allowing-air-into-gas theory was shot down, so now I'm going with the rebuild-the-fuel-pump theory. That's the only thing I didn't replace when I did the carb and plugs. Was originally hoping to avoid it since the carb kit was $24 and the fuel pump kit was $40 :shock: Of course, if I would have just rebuilt it back then I wouldn't have spent all morning chasing down parts and trying to get the thing running.
Ideas?
There's my rant/story/diatribe/problem....sorry about the length....I can only vent to my fiancee so much since she's not an engine guru like you guys are.
