It seems like all the tough ones are fuel related... (on a gasoline engine) I had a warped carburetor housing. Started OK, ran for a long time. Sometimes stalled - never restarted while warm. Solution - don't use gasoline engines :-)
I had one that was mysterious until I looked directly at the engine while it was running. Slightly corroded blanking cap (I don't know the proper word - it fills a hole that would otherwise have a connection screwed in) in the cooling jacket of the engine. When it was cold or running smoothly it was fine. Load the engine heavily it would overheat for a while then settle down - seemingly at a higher running temperature. When I looked at the engine running I saw a tiny jet of steam coming out when I started running heavily, after a while it stopped (I'm still not sure exactly why). Ease off the load & it stopped. Simple (& cheap) to replace, then everything was OK. Sailors miss out on all this fun! Hugh. _______________________________________________ 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
