I was up in Hell's Canyon last week and ran into issues about 5 miles from the dock on the way back (thank goodness).
The engine stopped running really quite abruptly, like it seized up. I used the kicker to eddy out of the current and then inspected my setup. The oil reservoirs were both 3/4 full. The smaller reservoir mounted on the engine, under the cowling, was dry as a bone.
I had to get out of the canyon, so I transferred oil from the reservoirs into the smaller reservoir on the engine and started it up. It ran for 15 seconds and stopped again. There was oil in it this time.
It will still turn over and start, so it didn't seize, thank goodness. However, i am perplexed by what happened. Why would the smaller reservoir have gone dry when there was still oil in the big resevoirs (they were sealed tight with no kinks or cuts in hoses, BTW)? Why would the engine still stop even with oil in the small reservoir?
Obviously, my engine is in line for a round of compression checks, but I still don't understand what caused this to happen.
Boat in question is a 1999 Hewescraft sport jet, so this engine isn't mounted in an outboard configuration, if that means anything - it is inboard.
The engine stopped running really quite abruptly, like it seized up. I used the kicker to eddy out of the current and then inspected my setup. The oil reservoirs were both 3/4 full. The smaller reservoir mounted on the engine, under the cowling, was dry as a bone.
I had to get out of the canyon, so I transferred oil from the reservoirs into the smaller reservoir on the engine and started it up. It ran for 15 seconds and stopped again. There was oil in it this time.
It will still turn over and start, so it didn't seize, thank goodness. However, i am perplexed by what happened. Why would the smaller reservoir have gone dry when there was still oil in the big resevoirs (they were sealed tight with no kinks or cuts in hoses, BTW)? Why would the engine still stop even with oil in the small reservoir?
Obviously, my engine is in line for a round of compression checks, but I still don't understand what caused this to happen.
Boat in question is a 1999 Hewescraft sport jet, so this engine isn't mounted in an outboard configuration, if that means anything - it is inboard.
