csl
07-25-2012, 11:00 PM
Took a trip last weekend to laurel lake, KY. Had two issues throughout the weekend. #1 is there were a couple times when I had no power or hole shot. The boat would just bog down and I could barely get up to 15 mph. Other times it had great power and no problem. Was usually when boat was warmed up. We added sea foam and heet to the gas thinking mabe it needed cleaned up. Don't know if that really helped much. Still feel it was a fuel issue of some sort. Next on my list is to change fuel
filter. Any ideas?
#2 was the typical vapor lock syndrome. My boat starts hard to begin with. Have to pump it a few times and crank for a little. Once it is running it purrs and seems very smooth (until this weekend):mad:. We had trouble keeping it running when at idle speeds. When we would kick it in gear it would die unless we gave it a lot of gas. If it would die we could hardly get it started again. We poured water on it a few times and that seemed to help some. Nothing worse than smooth wakeboarding water all
around and having to set in the boat to let it cool down. Usually if we let it set for a little it would fire up. Any ideas on hard starts would be helpful and also dying when putting in gear. I'm not much of a mechanic, so fire away at me.
filter. Any ideas?
#2 was the typical vapor lock syndrome. My boat starts hard to begin with. Have to pump it a few times and crank for a little. Once it is running it purrs and seems very smooth (until this weekend):mad:. We had trouble keeping it running when at idle speeds. When we would kick it in gear it would die unless we gave it a lot of gas. If it would die we could hardly get it started again. We poured water on it a few times and that seemed to help some. Nothing worse than smooth wakeboarding water all
around and having to set in the boat to let it cool down. Usually if we let it set for a little it would fire up. Any ideas on hard starts would be helpful and also dying when putting in gear. I'm not much of a mechanic, so fire away at me.