New problem right before winter rising go figure.
cell last week I took it out for a first time run of a newly purchased boat 1989 regal 3.7 MerCruiser engine alpha one. When I got to the ramp we put in the water now previously I ran it in the driveway and it ran nice and clean started up clean and ran very smooth. When I got to the ramp we put the boat in I started the boat A lot of black and blue smoke came out and it smelled like gasoline I said well that’s strange that never happened before I let it run for a few minutes and we headed out. This is where this becomes a two-part problem. I lowered the L Dr. thinking I was in deep water gave it some gas and I heard some knocking and grinding I stopped I did this two more times panicked thinking it was the outdrive but then realize like an idiot even though I was about 50 yards out I was still shallow light damage to the prop occurred. After I realize I was a deep enough water I lowered the outdrive and gave it about 75% gas while about 40 seconds into a good clean smooth run all of a sudden it hesitated and stalled I then restarted it it ran for about 20 seconds stalled started again it ran for about 25 seconds stalled finally I said let’s just idle back into the dock that only lasted about six minutes to where it wouldn’t even idle anymore. The next day the boat started up fine but again lots of black smoke lots of steam coming off the backend I also noticed that not a lot of water was coming out of the exhaust area now I’m wondering if it was just burning up there is warm water coming out but not like it used to when I ran the boat in the driveway what should I start doing my main concern is winterizing the boat and dealing with this garbage in the spring I’m thinking of taking the lower unit off but I’m wondering if I should bother because again with the muffs on there is a little water trickling out of the exhaust I also noticed that the engine is running a little rough as if it’s running on three cylinders instead of four but I checked all four cylinders are running . I think my main concern is to get this thing running for about 10 or 15 minutes get it winterized and then store it but I need some advice why all of a sudden is this thing not sucking up a lot of water because I put the old drive in a big big giant blue bucket and before if I stopped feeding water to the bucket you could see the water level go down now you don’t also there is a slight knocking in the old drive maybe I’m being paranoid. That’s a whole lot to swallow right now any help would be greatly appreciated I’ll reply best I can again
cell last week I took it out for a first time run of a newly purchased boat 1989 regal 3.7 MerCruiser engine alpha one. When I got to the ramp we put in the water now previously I ran it in the driveway and it ran nice and clean started up clean and ran very smooth. When I got to the ramp we put the boat in I started the boat A lot of black and blue smoke came out and it smelled like gasoline I said well that’s strange that never happened before I let it run for a few minutes and we headed out. This is where this becomes a two-part problem. I lowered the L Dr. thinking I was in deep water gave it some gas and I heard some knocking and grinding I stopped I did this two more times panicked thinking it was the outdrive but then realize like an idiot even though I was about 50 yards out I was still shallow light damage to the prop occurred. After I realize I was a deep enough water I lowered the outdrive and gave it about 75% gas while about 40 seconds into a good clean smooth run all of a sudden it hesitated and stalled I then restarted it it ran for about 20 seconds stalled started again it ran for about 25 seconds stalled finally I said let’s just idle back into the dock that only lasted about six minutes to where it wouldn’t even idle anymore. The next day the boat started up fine but again lots of black smoke lots of steam coming off the backend I also noticed that not a lot of water was coming out of the exhaust area now I’m wondering if it was just burning up there is warm water coming out but not like it used to when I ran the boat in the driveway what should I start doing my main concern is winterizing the boat and dealing with this garbage in the spring I’m thinking of taking the lower unit off but I’m wondering if I should bother because again with the muffs on there is a little water trickling out of the exhaust I also noticed that the engine is running a little rough as if it’s running on three cylinders instead of four but I checked all four cylinders are running . I think my main concern is to get this thing running for about 10 or 15 minutes get it winterized and then store it but I need some advice why all of a sudden is this thing not sucking up a lot of water because I put the old drive in a big big giant blue bucket and before if I stopped feeding water to the bucket you could see the water level go down now you don’t also there is a slight knocking in the old drive maybe I’m being paranoid. That’s a whole lot to swallow right now any help would be greatly appreciated I’ll reply best I can again
