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Hey everyone,
My second post here. First time around you all were extremely helpful and just wanted to say thanks.
A couple of buddies and I just bought a boat with two 1973 ford 302's. We have been having a hard time with our starboard engine. 1st time we took her out she started fine, ran fine, then after about 20 minutes the engine jsut died. After doing some troubleshooting we noticed the hose on the coolant reserviour pressure valve had come loose and was shooting coolant onto the distributor cap. We fixed the hose, replaced the Distrubitor cap, rotar and coil and thought the problem was solved. Now that we are more familiar with the boat, we're still noticing some problems with that same engine. For starters, we are getting a fair amount of dark smoke from the valve cover vent (far more than port engine) at higher RPm's, our vacuum guage drops to zero at high RPM's. We aren't getting the power from that engine that we should, and can't figure out why. Can't seem to get the RPM's over 2800. She idles great, starts on first crank, but won't perform when we need her. Also, our oil pressure guage is maxed at 80 on that engine (we think its a bad guage and plan on double checking that tonight). The temperature seems OK, as it matched the port engine, right around 160. Both engines have been recently rebuilt with only 40 hours a piece.
Someone mentioned a bad PCV valve, does this make sense?
Thanks in advance for all the help.
My second post here. First time around you all were extremely helpful and just wanted to say thanks.
A couple of buddies and I just bought a boat with two 1973 ford 302's. We have been having a hard time with our starboard engine. 1st time we took her out she started fine, ran fine, then after about 20 minutes the engine jsut died. After doing some troubleshooting we noticed the hose on the coolant reserviour pressure valve had come loose and was shooting coolant onto the distributor cap. We fixed the hose, replaced the Distrubitor cap, rotar and coil and thought the problem was solved. Now that we are more familiar with the boat, we're still noticing some problems with that same engine. For starters, we are getting a fair amount of dark smoke from the valve cover vent (far more than port engine) at higher RPm's, our vacuum guage drops to zero at high RPM's. We aren't getting the power from that engine that we should, and can't figure out why. Can't seem to get the RPM's over 2800. She idles great, starts on first crank, but won't perform when we need her. Also, our oil pressure guage is maxed at 80 on that engine (we think its a bad guage and plan on double checking that tonight). The temperature seems OK, as it matched the port engine, right around 160. Both engines have been recently rebuilt with only 40 hours a piece.
Someone mentioned a bad PCV valve, does this make sense?
Thanks in advance for all the help.
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