1992 Mercruiser 3.0 with electronic ignition..
The other day I changed the manifold and elbow, along with a new valve cover gasket. I put the boat on muffs afterward and the boat started right up and idled perfect.
I took it out on the Columbia river today and had nothing but problems. First off every time I would go from forward to neutral or reverse to neutral the boat would die. I thought maybe the shift interrupter switch was still unplugged, but it was ok.
Then the boat would not start....got a real strong smell of gas vapors and it seemed all I was doing was flooding the carb. I figured out later on the only way I could get it to start was to let it sit for about 20 minutes, open the throttle all the way and then pump the gas a bunch of times. It would struggle to fire up, but once it did it would idle fine....that is until I had to shift to neutral and it would die...then I had to repeat steps above. It also lacks the power I had before once I could get it to run.
I'm guessing maybe the bummpy two hour drive to the river might have loosened crap up that was in the carb, or I tarded out and did something wrong with my above repairs. It just seems like the carb is just flooding the engine. I pulled a spark plug on the water and it was just soaked with gas.
The other day I changed the manifold and elbow, along with a new valve cover gasket. I put the boat on muffs afterward and the boat started right up and idled perfect.
I took it out on the Columbia river today and had nothing but problems. First off every time I would go from forward to neutral or reverse to neutral the boat would die. I thought maybe the shift interrupter switch was still unplugged, but it was ok.
Then the boat would not start....got a real strong smell of gas vapors and it seemed all I was doing was flooding the carb. I figured out later on the only way I could get it to start was to let it sit for about 20 minutes, open the throttle all the way and then pump the gas a bunch of times. It would struggle to fire up, but once it did it would idle fine....that is until I had to shift to neutral and it would die...then I had to repeat steps above. It also lacks the power I had before once I could get it to run.
I'm guessing maybe the bummpy two hour drive to the river might have loosened crap up that was in the carb, or I tarded out and did something wrong with my above repairs. It just seems like the carb is just flooding the engine. I pulled a spark plug on the water and it was just soaked with gas.
