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On May 25, 3:49 pm, wrote:
This morning I opened up the fuel pump and cleaned it. It was very yellow inside! Immediately out on the water, I saw a difference, when pushing the throttle up, it still bogged, but then came up and stayed up to full speed! I think it's safe now to say that the fuel pump is the issue. I ran it for 2 hrs today and it's the best it's been yet! Now I'm not sure how to finally fix this, a fuel pump rebuild, or a new one all together? I may start with a new fuel filter incase that is coming into play somehow. Should I stick with 50 to 1 nix? I was using wlamart 2 cycle, but just picked up a case of Valvoline... Read that cheap 2 cycle will foul up more. Don't worry yet about fouling up more, let's get you foulded up less first ![]() anyway, you have put enough into this so far, just finish the job and be done with it. Get a new pump and filter, and put em' on. Don't skimp now after all that work and money, finish the job and go out on the water with confidence. Just my opinion. |
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Yes, I'll be replacing it as soon as I can find one! I'm looking
online but can't come across one yet! It's a 1999 Johnson 60 Horse, fuel pump has a metal plate on front where it attaches to engine. I'm pretty sure a new one will be the key to getting the preformance up to 100%. |
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So now more confusion.... I came up with part number 5004558 for my
fuel pump. That means it's a VRO pump? But my engine is 2cycle and I mix my gas and oil 50/1. Is my fuel pump also mixing oil? That would be news to me and I don't even know where the oil goes! Also, looks like the new unit is $300, I'll give another week of test runs, it's getting better every day, so maybe it'll work itself out. |
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On May 26, 12:42 am, wrote:
So now more confusion.... I came up with part number 5004558 for my fuel pump. That means it's a VRO pump? But my engine is 2cycle and I mix my gas and oil 50/1. Is my fuel pump also mixing oil? That would be news to me and I don't even know where the oil goes! Also, looks like the new unit is $300, I'll give another week of test runs, it's getting better every day, so maybe it'll work itself out. Well, that's about where I get off. More than I can help you with, hopefully someone will jump in here. |
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![]() wrote in message ups.com... So now more confusion.... I came up with part number 5004558 for my fuel pump. That means it's a VRO pump? But my engine is 2cycle and I mix my gas and oil 50/1. Is my fuel pump also mixing oil? That would be news to me and I don't even know where the oil goes! Also, looks like the new unit is $300, I'll give another week of test runs, it's getting better every day, so maybe it'll work itself out. Only if it has an oil tank. Mine has a small oil tank sitting near the gas tank. However, I read on these newsgroups that many people, either have trouble with that concept or don't trust it and simply disconnect it and mix the oil/gas in the gas tank. That sounds like what has happened in your case. My 60hp acted just like yours last Summer and since I only took it away from the dock twice, I never got around to fixing it. Therefore, I read this thread with much interest. I had disconnected the controls to redeck the pontoon boat and was thinking that I had perhaps connected up something wrong. I wonder if it's possible to reverse the forward and reverse throttle controls. I didn't realize that they were separate....don't know why I didn't realize that both cables were throttle. Tom G |
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