Jim, How about fuel tank vent clogged up so that as fuel is used a vacuum builds eventually stopping engine. When engine stopped vacuum slowly dissipates letting engine start back up.
Lee Huddleston s/v Truelove -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jim sims Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 6:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Liveaboard] looking for tough engine diagnosis problem (and solution) Looking for a touch engine diagnosis problem and the solution for a story I'm writing.... Ideally something not obvious, that might have symptoms like: 1) runs fine for a while 2) then misses or surges 3) quits Nothing easy - e.g. not (routine) filter problem, not bad gas/diesel. thanks! jim _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
