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DAN (no login)
Posted Jun 23, 2009 1:22 AM
Ok; here's another story. After the full throttle at engine start nightmare, this is what happens:
Important to note that the explanation for the thottle problem as stated did not satisfy me to begin with. I'm a clinician and there is a certain amount of common sense in me that tickled.
Nuf said, here's the next one:
I took the boat out this past sunday all excited about jetting "wild". As soon as I hit the water I tried opening it. The rpm's go along with the throttle until the vessel reaches about 5m/h, then the rpm's shoot up with the throttle but no additional speed or power gained. I tried several times unsucessfully. I did not noticed anything else with the powertrain and I managed to go about 3miles to our destination and back at that speed, the sweet point being at 4k rpm's. I also noticed the fuel gauge wasn't working and the speedometer only worked on the way back after I spun the wheel under the boat a few times. Come home after that frustrating day(can you imagine?) and I noticed sand in my driveway exactly where I flushed the boat the night before. (I just wanted to see how it ran atfer the guy worked on it and hopefully to avoid total embarassment, yeah right) I flushed the boat again as I always do and low and behold, more sand!?! although not nearly as much as the night before. Hmm!?! I measured a full cup of beach sand(with crushed shells)all together. Ok, you'll now say, oops! you forgot sucking some of that stuff on your last trip but absolutely not. It was in freshwater last time I took it out and trust me, there was plenty of power when I started that baby at full throttle last time (hitting the dock at that speed was no fun).
Here are the big questions:
I don't want to think that guy poured the sand through the flush hose attachment hole to get more business. Maybe I'm getting Alzheimer's desease. If I would have sucked all that sand through the tines, wouldn't it have expelled all of it after 6 miles of travel? Sand only appeared during flushing before and after the trip. I'm still at a loss with the fuel gauge but right now that's the least of my worries. Any help or any other theory will be greatly appreciated.
DAN |
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