Re: Force Engine stalls
Welcome to iboats, Roy. It's impossable to say for sure at this point. It a process of ellimination. Does the bulb lose firmness?If pumped firm again, does the engine start right up?<br />Take a can of WD40,and spray a three-second blast into each carb throat, and try it..Does the engine sputter,or try to run breifly?<br />If not, you are safe to assume it's electrical.<br />Coils, switchboxes, triggers and stators all have coils of wire,and/or small circuit traces inside that, when heated, would expand. If there is a broken wire or circuit path, it could be making cantact when cool. But after warming up, the broken ends seperate, breaking connection. This is common in all things electrical.<br />I hate these types of failures, because they are a bugger to find the culprit...They check good when cold. <br />I have used freon spray in the past with great results. I would run the device (I was into tv service), until it failed..Then, i would chill components one-at-a-time, until the device werked again. Intermittant resistors and coils in TV service were a cinch using this meathod. However, I don't know if freon is available these days.<br />You might try a canister from one of those boat air horns,as I've noticed they get pretty cool from use.<br />But freon would get so cold, I sometimes had to use a glove while testing!<br />Good luck, and let us know what u find.
