TwoBallScrewBall
Lieutenant Commander
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- Sep 14, 2003
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Hi all,<br /><br />this is my first boat and my first post here. Recently picked up a 1988 bayliner capri 1900 with an omc 3.0. Engine ran good for a while but now I have a strange problem. It seems like it is starving for fuel now. It has two personalities. When it's acting good, it idles perfect and had good throttle response and top end. But when it's acting bad, the idle is very rough and it will only spool up to around 1500 rpm. It is out of the water at this point. I am thinking that the carb needs a cleaning and maybe a rebuild, but wanted to run this by the board first since there seem to be so many knowledgable people here I figured I might save myself some time. I got home from work today and started it, it ran bad. Then I shut it down and checked the firing order, it was fine. Started it back up and it ran great for about 2 minutes, then went right back to the rough idle and no top end. Any ideas folks???<br /><br />Thanks!