If head gasket was blown 1 or 2 plugs would be white from steam cleaning. The motor would be running rough, and the only water would be those cylinders not all of them
I winterized my AC systems maybe 10 years or more ago because I never use it. Used RV AF and if I had to do it all over again I would have tried to use just air. The AF will dry out
Could be a few things, but need more info to determine.
The water ingestion is the weird one. Everything being the same it should not have happened but it did. The last motor this didn't happen so it leans me toward the new motor make up, but does not exonerate the exhaust possibility
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An instant shut down should not cause the motor to inject water if the elbows are spec above the water line.
The high pitch fuel pump and taking time to get restarted, it may have a fuel restriction. The restriction may be a collapsed fuel line, pickup tube, antisiphon valve
Might want to...
With one dead cylinder you've lost 12% power (310-12% = 37 hp).
That said, if the cylinder just went dead between old drive and new one, this could be the issue, but that would be a heck of a coincidence. My guess is it was already dead and the reason you only was getting 25-26 mph.
Fog cleared and yes I did get a boost in speed. This was after my repower and was running Hill marine B3 4x4 at 22 pitch. After the repaint I started to overrev and put 3 blade 26 pitch. Think WOT was 47 mph and gained about 2 mph. So not much boost
If paint is smooth then its just looks your dealing with. Mine wasn't smooth and I wanted to make it look good also, so paid to have it removed and I painted it with white epoxy
Agree with VP Mech that its not the pickup tube, and don't think it was lack of fuel that killed the motor. It was either electrical or because of the water
Is the boat actually on plane at that rpm or just plowing water?
Is this a salt water boat or fresh?
Were the exhaust manifolds...
Until I want to go to sleep :unsure:
Don't want her or anyone hurt, but many times I think if one of those hits her car, she would probably say "kill them all"
First pull the connector apart, clean and spread the males pins and shrink the female side slightly. If that doesn't fix it, the search Mercruiser 10 pin pigtail. Merc and VP are the same
This is from Hardin site, but look around for cheaper if going that route...
First and foremost, the thing that makes a good boat is the motor. If the motor doesn't run it doesn't matter what it looks like
The Chap is better made then the Monterey and does have higher resale. I have a Rinker which is in the similar range as the Monterey, they are entry level boats...
