Oh so many things to consider! My 48 cents worth: are you using ethanol gas if so you could be accumulating water in the fuel tank - happening all the time - Outboard engines bogg down and don't run because the small screens they use in vst tanks on engines - inboards especially old school carbed tend to burn it off if it reaches cylinders check filters first - Ignition causes same symptoms could be wires or plugs - Its cheap money to change wires and plugs and fuel filters first If your burning off water from cooling system it should show itself by a loss in the overflow bottles - If you had crusaders the exhaust manifolds are fresh water cooled - Steam ultimately might be coming from heads or head gaskets or your marine power manifolds I'm assuming you are in salt water.. I could hear it on my engines by using a piece of hose like a doctor uses a steathascope - I know - I spelled that wrong! A compression check will determine between which two cylinders the leak is at if your can't find it with a hose and it is a gasket or heads. GOOD LUCK
On Aug 30, 9:36 pm, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > took my 32 ss out for some tubing with the kids today and had some > issues with my starboard engine. I have marine power 350's with a > little over 500 hours on them that are about 4 years old. Here is what > I noticed, 1) more white smoke than usual coming out of exaust; 2) > temps running a little hotter, that engine normally runs 140-150 but > was showing about 165 3) engine was cutting in and out, you could see > the tach running from 3200, down to 2000 like it was running out of > gas but would reengage again. It was also doing it when we were > running straight, so it wasnt because I was doing 360's. Tank was > showing at least 30% full. > > second day in a row with tubing....could it be some crap from the > bottom of the tank got stirred up? So should i be looking at fuel > filter, then fuel pump? There is no noise coming from the engines, > they sound good. > > ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
