Had the boat in the mechanic for a carb rebuild and general check up to help solve a hard starting, and dieseling problem... Mechanic found engine 11 degrees off and reset timing and did carb rebuild. Took boat out and it had some problems at idle wanting to surge and after I shut it down after a 15 minute run to fish it didnt want to start.... So took it back to him, and he says he did some tuning on the carb? and found the timing off again, and asked me several times if I had messed with it which I hadnt. So he adjust timing and took it out on test run said it was all back to normal. I pick boat up and topped off the tank. Boat started great, got up to temp at dock...Backed out of slip and it stalled, hard to start again...I did finally get it started and proceeded to head out..
Ran into a stranded boat in the channel so I towed them to safer water as their buddy was already on his way out to help, and my boat stalls again, now its really hard to start, I tried pumping throttle(neutral) to give a few squirts of gas and finally have to peg the throttle and it fires up... I cruise around just burning up some gas,various speeds and throttle on plane off plane...no problems...I head into the ramp, slow down get off plane,idle in and it dies...and no matter what I do it will not start...Luckily the wind blew me towards the dock..
My question is, short of the mechanic not tightening the distributer nut down tight, what would cause the timing to be off again... And im assuming a 3rd time as its doing the exact same thing today when I was out.
Im starting to get discouraged about this boat and my mechanic.
Any ideas?
Ran into a stranded boat in the channel so I towed them to safer water as their buddy was already on his way out to help, and my boat stalls again, now its really hard to start, I tried pumping throttle(neutral) to give a few squirts of gas and finally have to peg the throttle and it fires up... I cruise around just burning up some gas,various speeds and throttle on plane off plane...no problems...I head into the ramp, slow down get off plane,idle in and it dies...and no matter what I do it will not start...Luckily the wind blew me towards the dock..
My question is, short of the mechanic not tightening the distributer nut down tight, what would cause the timing to be off again... And im assuming a 3rd time as its doing the exact same thing today when I was out.
Im starting to get discouraged about this boat and my mechanic.
Any ideas?