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    A Good Night to be on Lake Erie

    Is seiche different to swell?
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    Reminder to check gear before towing.

    There was a fella driving back from the coast when he was pulled over by a police car. He became a little irate as soon as he saw the blue lights. The police officer said "Calm down, I only pulled you over because you have a tail bulb out". The fella said "Yeah but where's my ******* boat...
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    Volvo Penta V6-240 Fuel High Pressure Dropping to Zero

    Sorry I didn't visit this forum for a while but I checked this thread as soon as I visited... Just don't have anything to suggest. Any new developments?
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    I use the boat mostly on a local river (the river Ouse that runs through York), but it's only a little narrow river and gets a bit boring. I prefer to be on the sea and did have it on the sea off the coast of Wales a couple of days this year, I intend on taking it on the sea more often next year.
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    Thanks Horigan. Tomorrow I'll blow through the hose that is usually connected to the raw water pump input. When I first opened the block drain plugs I still had the thermostat housing fitted, water drained out of the port drain but not the starboard drain, then when I started to remove the...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    The boat is the one in my profile and the subject of this thread. Until now I've been hoping to get one more outing on the boat before winterising it, we had some decent weather with sunshine a few weeks ago. But now it's getting colder and it's forecast to be freezing in a couple of days, so...
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    Men, it is October

    Heh, I expected this to be about temperatures falling and it getting close to the end of boating season.
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    Volvo Penta V6-240 Fuel High Pressure Dropping to Zero

    Watched the scope video a few times, had to download a new codec to watch it, not sure what to make of it, seems to me the pulse frequency might drop off immediately when the rpms begin to fall off? But I suppose pulse frequency is rpm related anyway, in which case that would be expected and not...
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    Volvo Penta V6-240 Fuel High Pressure Dropping to Zero

    I downloaded the Diacom software and used it to look at the same section of .rec file @Biz603 posted a picture of in post #58 and @harringtondav referred to in post #60. Derate1, derate2 and forced idle are not set during any of the file, so it seems nothing points to the ECU intentionally...
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    Volvo Penta V6-240 Fuel High Pressure Dropping to Zero

    Thanks, I will download Rinda and have a look at the files. I already attempted to look at the files by importing the data to a spreadsheet, doing that I can see a lot of the header and summary information but I didn't get as far as being able to read what I believe will be the live / realtime...
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    Volvo Penta V6-240 Fuel High Pressure Dropping to Zero

    I don't have Diacom (so can't read the .rec files) and I'm not familiar with this particular engine. I'm not even fully versed with exactly how some direct injection engine fuel systems work with their multi-pressure stage fuel systems. I do know that on some direct injection engines there is...
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    Volvo Penta V6-240 Fuel High Pressure Dropping to Zero

    Sorry I missed that.
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    Boats from work.

    Interesting thread, great work.
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    F150 Injector stuck open

    If an injector has been stuck open fuel may have got into the engine oil, in which case it would obviously be a good idea to change the oil. I too find it surprising some mechanical and electrical things last as long as they do. Injectors usually last around a billion cycles on a vehicle, but...
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    Volvo Penta V6-240 Fuel High Pressure Dropping to Zero

    I've never used OBD equipment on a marine engine but I diagnose vehicle engine problems everyday. On a car P0174 would point to lean mixture on bank2, on this boat engine the 0174 code also seems to point to lean mixture on bank2. The way it detects mixture is using an O2 sensor, the boat engine...
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