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3 Weeks ago I just finished organizing my tackle and reloading it all into my boat. My floating office was now completely stocked and organized with everything from flipping sticks and push poles to TP and SPF.
Well, today I spent an hour and a half this morning UNLOADING it all! Reason being is my boat will be sitting at the dealers for the next 2 to 3 weeks.
I have a 2000 Johnson 150hp Pro Series. I had intended to bring it down to have my impeller replaced and to have my aerators replaced. My impeller was old and not producing enough pressure to keep my cool at idle and my aerator just completely quit and wasn't doing a thing rendering my livewells useless.
Last night on the water I ran into a new situation. While running down the lake my boat would suddenly begin to starve for fuel and cut off. Trying to crank it back up would result in it almost catching but then nothing. I checked my bulb and realized it was soft so I pumped it up until it was firm and my motor then cranked back up. I ran 30 seconds and it died again. Again I checked bulb - soft again. I pumped it up again and the motor cranked up again. This time I just idled. The boat continued to run and never quit. Only when I increased the RPM, which in turn increased the fuel demand, would my motor quit.
I explained that to my dealer and they said that they feel it could be one of two things.
1. It could be that my fuel lines are corroded or gunked up from ethanol in the gas.
2. There is a pump in the motor that pumps both fuel and oil and they said that could be cutting out on me and dieing.
I am not sure if it could be #1. The reason why I say this is because I have been putting Marine Stabil and Seafoam in my motor pretty regularly and supposedly that will counteract the affects of ethanol. The only possibility is that for a while I was only using Stabil when I knew the boat would be parked for any length of time. Perhaps that was long enough for t he ethanol to do its damage.
On the other hand I am hoping it IS #1 because #2 is about twice as expensive to fix.
Anyway, all my tackle is back inside and it looks like for the next few weeks I will be back to my 10' jon boat.
3 Weeks ago I just finished organizing my tackle and reloading it all into my boat. My floating office was now completely stocked and organized with everything from flipping sticks and push poles to TP and SPF.
Well, today I spent an hour and a half this morning UNLOADING it all! Reason being is my boat will be sitting at the dealers for the next 2 to 3 weeks.
I have a 2000 Johnson 150hp Pro Series. I had intended to bring it down to have my impeller replaced and to have my aerators replaced. My impeller was old and not producing enough pressure to keep my cool at idle and my aerator just completely quit and wasn't doing a thing rendering my livewells useless.
Last night on the water I ran into a new situation. While running down the lake my boat would suddenly begin to starve for fuel and cut off. Trying to crank it back up would result in it almost catching but then nothing. I checked my bulb and realized it was soft so I pumped it up until it was firm and my motor then cranked back up. I ran 30 seconds and it died again. Again I checked bulb - soft again. I pumped it up again and the motor cranked up again. This time I just idled. The boat continued to run and never quit. Only when I increased the RPM, which in turn increased the fuel demand, would my motor quit.
I explained that to my dealer and they said that they feel it could be one of two things.
1. It could be that my fuel lines are corroded or gunked up from ethanol in the gas.
2. There is a pump in the motor that pumps both fuel and oil and they said that could be cutting out on me and dieing.
I am not sure if it could be #1. The reason why I say this is because I have been putting Marine Stabil and Seafoam in my motor pretty regularly and supposedly that will counteract the affects of ethanol. The only possibility is that for a while I was only using Stabil when I knew the boat would be parked for any length of time. Perhaps that was long enough for t he ethanol to do its damage.
On the other hand I am hoping it IS #1 because #2 is about twice as expensive to fix.
Anyway, all my tackle is back inside and it looks like for the next few weeks I will be back to my 10' jon boat.