FishingCop
Well-known member
The guy I sold my boat to 3 weeks ago called me today wondering if I had ever had this problem. I guess he took it out last week and it ran like a top - they were out 4 hours and had no problems. Today, the motor started right up with a short turn of the key. They idled out past the no wake area, throttled up, but the motor just sputtered some, then died and now will not start.
They tried and tried - turns over fine but won't fire. Gas line and bulb full. I told him I never had that sort of problem in the 4 years I owned the boat.
Specs: 1995 Force, 40hp, 2 cycle, last fall's gas/oil, with stabil added - 13 gallon tank, full up before storage so gas/oil is old - but I've done this for years, never a problem. Also has 10% ethanol gas. Also, pulled the plugs, cleaned them and sprayed sea foam in the cylinders and replaced the plugs and wires for storage. Lower oil changed before storage last November.
The only thing I didn't ask was how many RPM's he was running last week - it runs about 5400 at full throttle - I told him the manual says to hold it down to 5100 and, to watch the RPM's when running WOT. Don't know if he did that or not? Surely it didn't overheat at idle speed. Maybe it just flooded??
All that being said, any thoughts, comments, ideas on what went wrong???
Thanks......
They tried and tried - turns over fine but won't fire. Gas line and bulb full. I told him I never had that sort of problem in the 4 years I owned the boat.
Specs: 1995 Force, 40hp, 2 cycle, last fall's gas/oil, with stabil added - 13 gallon tank, full up before storage so gas/oil is old - but I've done this for years, never a problem. Also has 10% ethanol gas. Also, pulled the plugs, cleaned them and sprayed sea foam in the cylinders and replaced the plugs and wires for storage. Lower oil changed before storage last November.
The only thing I didn't ask was how many RPM's he was running last week - it runs about 5400 at full throttle - I told him the manual says to hold it down to 5100 and, to watch the RPM's when running WOT. Don't know if he did that or not? Surely it didn't overheat at idle speed. Maybe it just flooded??
All that being said, any thoughts, comments, ideas on what went wrong???
Thanks......