On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 09:10:44AM -0400, SteveW wrote:
> How about the little tiny filter at the end of the pick-up line in the tank.
> Had that one happen and at the time didn't even know there was a small
> filter at the end of that puppy! And, of course, been there done that...
Argh! BTDT, still got the T-shirt. :) Windless passage from Mayaguana to
the Turks and Caicos; the engine runs fine up to 1850RPM, chokes and
dies within 2 minutes of going to 1900. Back off, runs fine.
Normal-seeming fuel flow all the way up to the HP pump... took most of a
day of this before the light in my brain went on.
Just before getting on the banks, I disconnected the fuel line and stuck
it into a 5-gallon diesel jug; used that to get into Sapodilla Bay, with
the engine running just fine. Then, with gritted teeth, I took apart
nearly the entire aft end of the boat I was on to get to the top of the
tank, pulled out the intake tube, and found what I just *knew* I would
find there: an intake filter, packed with algae and other kinds of
accumulated crap. I ranted about it for most of a week. "What kind of a
moron would do something as monumentally STUPID as this????" Boy, was I
mad. :)
Ben
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