In the middle of an interesting saga with my motor and would love thoughts/suggestions:
Last weekend we went to go out for the first time in about 6 weeks (thanks to a foot injury + surgery). Charged the battery up, cranked up on the second turn in the driveway; so off we went. Once we got to the boat ramp I went to start it and it cranked and cranked, but it never turned over. Decided not to push it that day and came home. Upon checking everything I noticed a loose positive terminal so I got a new one and replaced it the next night, and all seemed fine. My best guess at the time was that it was sort of loose (but not too loose) when it started fine at home, but maybe the trip to the boat ramp jostled it around a little more and it didn't have a good enough connection to fire. Started on the first crank after the fix and I ran it for 10ish minutes with the muffs attached and everything seemed great.
Today we go to try again. Boat started on the first crank in the driveway, and the first crank at the boat ramp. It ran for a good 10-15 min while we got everyone in/got the truck parked, even with me putting it in and out of gear to get back over to the dock. We went to take off (pushed from neutral to forward) and it completely died and would not re-fire in the normal neutral position. I put it into forward (throttle only) and tried it and it came back on, but when I went back to neutral it died again. I repeated the same steps once again and took my time getting it into neutral and it seemed to hold its' idle fine, I was even able to put it in forward gear to trailer it (thankfully). It was smoking a little bit when I did this and had a fairly strong fuel smell.
Battery, spark plugs, fuel filter all have probably less than 8-10 hours on them (if that). Voltage, oil pressure and temp seems to be perfect. Normal idle seems to be on par with the Mercruiser specs. Best I can figure, my it's some sort of fuel delivery (likely carb) issue.
Has anyone experienced anything similar?
Last weekend we went to go out for the first time in about 6 weeks (thanks to a foot injury + surgery). Charged the battery up, cranked up on the second turn in the driveway; so off we went. Once we got to the boat ramp I went to start it and it cranked and cranked, but it never turned over. Decided not to push it that day and came home. Upon checking everything I noticed a loose positive terminal so I got a new one and replaced it the next night, and all seemed fine. My best guess at the time was that it was sort of loose (but not too loose) when it started fine at home, but maybe the trip to the boat ramp jostled it around a little more and it didn't have a good enough connection to fire. Started on the first crank after the fix and I ran it for 10ish minutes with the muffs attached and everything seemed great.
Today we go to try again. Boat started on the first crank in the driveway, and the first crank at the boat ramp. It ran for a good 10-15 min while we got everyone in/got the truck parked, even with me putting it in and out of gear to get back over to the dock. We went to take off (pushed from neutral to forward) and it completely died and would not re-fire in the normal neutral position. I put it into forward (throttle only) and tried it and it came back on, but when I went back to neutral it died again. I repeated the same steps once again and took my time getting it into neutral and it seemed to hold its' idle fine, I was even able to put it in forward gear to trailer it (thankfully). It was smoking a little bit when I did this and had a fairly strong fuel smell.
Battery, spark plugs, fuel filter all have probably less than 8-10 hours on them (if that). Voltage, oil pressure and temp seems to be perfect. Normal idle seems to be on par with the Mercruiser specs. Best I can figure, my it's some sort of fuel delivery (likely carb) issue.
Has anyone experienced anything similar?
