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back with a problem now
Hi all,
First I must apologize for my abrupt leaving a couple of weeks ago. I was under a lot of stressors in life, and just let too many things get to me. Now, onto the problem of my boat. Boat is a 30' Sportcraft with twin 350 inboards. Both engines start up and run perfectly with no problems. Have been out salmon trolling all day (at idle speeds), come in and had no problems. This past weekend I went out on a long range tuna hunt. (got 24 albacore off of the Oregon coast, but that's another story. :-) ) Boat ran great going out, trolled at 6-9kts all day. On the way back in however, after a quick refuel (carried 40 gal. of gas in cans), about 24 miles offshore, the port engine began cutting out and stalling. Ended up coming in on one leg basically, with the port engine at idle speed only at best. I figured the problem was some crap in the fuel filter, so changed that out, and a few days later went out and did a short 15-20 minute trial run to test it...problem seemingly solved, engine ran at full speed with no problems. Yesterday, I take some friends back out to the tuna grounds (only got 21 fish, but were not out as long either :-D ). Both engines run perfectly, troll a good portion of the day and running back in the port engine begins cutting out again. I found that I could shut it down, let it sit for a few minutes running on just the starboard engine, and then restart it and it would run for a minute or two again then stall out again. It acts like it's running out of gas. No sputtering, no smoke, not hot, just cuts out. Both engines run off the same gas tank, the tank is built into the transom and I've not visually inspected it yet (not sure I can get access to it with any ease at all). But if it were a problem with the gas, or the tank, it should be in both engines I would think. If it were a problem with the engine only when it's warm, I would think running it for even 30-40 minutes at speed would get it warm enough to present the problem. I took it out today on the water and it ran perfectly for about 45 minutes. The ONLY thing I've done is gas it up yesterday when we got back into port. I have no real clue what to check next. It SEEMS to present when the fuel tank gets down to a certain level, but without running it all day, to run it down again, I have no real way to check that again... Any ideas or suggestions of what to look for next? Carborator? Fuel Pump? Thanks much for any suggestions anyone could offer up. Nancy |
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