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06-15-2018, 06:13 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 5,515
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Low rpm’s
Headed back in today and couldn’t get above 4K rpm...
Here we go again!
Starting with fuel filters this weekend then ordering VST, gaskets, msc., and May send the injectors out locally...
No long trips in my future for a while... grrrrrrr
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06-17-2018, 05:50 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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Ray, same symptoms I had last year. Among other things it was the high pressure fuel pump. Sorry. $400+
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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06-17-2018, 08:50 AM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
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This is why I hire out all my outboard work.... Season is too short. I am sure I could save a few bucks winterizing and commissioning engine, but he knows and can recognize stuff that I would be guessing at.
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06-17-2018, 01:12 PM
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#4
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 5,515
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Up and running!
Changed out bulb, micron filter, plugs and OEM filter..
Emptied out most of the fuel out of the 10 micron mini filter, shook it, dumped into glass , got this...
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Not sure what that orange stuff is, feels a little gritty
The black stuff is definitely rubber IMO
Got her up to 5K RPM good enough for now...
Ordering VST filter to change when I have time..
BOATS
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06-18-2018, 02:09 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nightfighter
This is why I hire out all my outboard work.... Season is too short. I am sure I could save a few bucks winterizing and commissioning engine, but he knows and can recognize stuff that I would be guessing at.
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Ross, totally agree. That's what I did before I sold the boat. |
No boat, back in the suds.
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06-18-2018, 03:26 PM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,425
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Is the orange stuff varnish?
I know my brother ended up replacing his tank and all the lines to end his fuel problem.
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06-18-2018, 04:42 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 5,515
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete F.
Is the orange stuff varnish?
I know my brother ended up replacing his tank and all the lines to end his fuel problem.
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Hmmmm, I dun know but the aluminum tank is 14 yrs old, I worked on it last winter because it had come loose. I knew I should have replaced it then but .... 
Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
Ross, totally agree. That's what I did before I sold the boat.
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A real Italian doesn’t pay to have something done he can do himself
(Especially when he can’t afford it) ;-)  |
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06-18-2018, 07:56 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 577
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It’s the rubbish in fuel these days it turns to a jelly. As a full time mechanic it’s only getting worse. This year I’ve had more problems with equipment that sits over the winter then I have in the past 8 years. I replaced all the fuel lines in my boat last year and for the short change it cost prob do it again. The lines will degrade and break down push particles through everything. Makes me appreciate the short line I have from my little 6 gal tank
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06-19-2018, 06:13 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Guppy
Hmmmm, I dun know but the aluminum tank is 14 yrs old, I worked on it last winter because it had come loose. I knew I should have replaced it then but ....
A real Italian doesn’t pay to have something done he can do himself
(Especially when he can’t afford it) ;-) |
That's true Ray but I am not a good mechanic. |
No boat, back in the suds.
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06-22-2018, 08:39 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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I thought you put a new VST filter in last year?
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No boat, back in the suds.
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06-22-2018, 08:23 PM
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#12
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User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 5,515
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
I thought you put a new VST filter in last year?
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LOL
couldn’t remember, was it last year? Or year before!
Pretty sure I got a bad fill up of chit gas and it went right through the engine, had the injectors cleaned also and now back up to over 5K rpm....
Now I’m down to a fuel line leak that dumb arz me didn’t catch before putting it all back together...
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06-23-2018, 05:40 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,372
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Glad your making progress .. any way to filter more fuel before it gets to the vst filter?.. not sure it will help
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06-24-2018, 06:35 AM
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Idiot
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 2,287
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Nice to see progress towards actually fixing a motor problem, I never got past the gremlin I was chasing in mine last summer 
Unrelated to your RPMs, does that steering knob squeak like the #^&#^&#^&#^&ens for you? I think I’ve got the same one and have been trying to think of the right lubricant to get the damn thing to shut up!
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06-24-2018, 04:32 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 180
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
Nice to see progress towards actually fixing a motor problem, I never got past the gremlin I was chasing in mine last summer
Unrelated to your RPMs, does that steering knob squeak like the #^&#^&#^&#^&ens for you? I think I’ve got the same one and have been trying to think of the right lubricant to get the damn thing to shut up!
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spend 10k on stuff you don't need and the wife will drown out the loudest noise you can think of.... just a thought.
sol... |
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06-24-2018, 06:23 PM
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User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 5,515
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
Nice to see progress towards actually fixing a motor problem, I never got past the gremlin I was chasing in mine last summer
Unrelated to your RPMs, does that steering knob squeak like the #^&#^&#^&#^&ens for you? I think I’ve got the same one and have been trying to think of the right lubricant to get the damn thing to shut up!
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Nope, no squeaks
Sol, you sound like a man of experience.... :-) |
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06-24-2018, 07:38 PM
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Idiot
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 2,287
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SolOmoN
spend 10k on stuff you don't need and the wife will drown out the loudest noise you can think of.... just a thought.
sol...
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I don’t have the balls
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