Hi All,
I just bought a boat about 2 weeks ago and have been going through it. Took it out on the pond for the first time last weekend. Seemed to be running great for about 20-30 minutes or so. I shut it down to take a look at the engine area to make sure everything looked ok...no leaks, all looked fine. Engine fired right up. Started off again...after about 3 minutes or so....engine power just didn't seem right...felt like it was losing some and engine had a light metallic pinging noise going on..went about another few minutes...and she felt like she was going to die...throttled back to just above idle to try and get back to the launch....temp gauge started to rise...was a little above 160...then engine quite and would crank but no start. Ended up getting towed in....tried starting a few times but never kicked over. After trailering and getting home...popped a couple of ears on it and she fired right up first crank. My buddy who was with me seems to think it over heated. I looked around the forum and some were saying 160 is the operating temp and others recommended making sure it didn't go over 200, which it didn't. Would the engine die with a temp just over the half way mark? On the agenda for tomorrow is a new impeller and T-stat, but I just wanted to see if anyone else had any idea for other things I could check.
Boat is an 88 as well as the engine.
Thanks
Dave
I just bought a boat about 2 weeks ago and have been going through it. Took it out on the pond for the first time last weekend. Seemed to be running great for about 20-30 minutes or so. I shut it down to take a look at the engine area to make sure everything looked ok...no leaks, all looked fine. Engine fired right up. Started off again...after about 3 minutes or so....engine power just didn't seem right...felt like it was losing some and engine had a light metallic pinging noise going on..went about another few minutes...and she felt like she was going to die...throttled back to just above idle to try and get back to the launch....temp gauge started to rise...was a little above 160...then engine quite and would crank but no start. Ended up getting towed in....tried starting a few times but never kicked over. After trailering and getting home...popped a couple of ears on it and she fired right up first crank. My buddy who was with me seems to think it over heated. I looked around the forum and some were saying 160 is the operating temp and others recommended making sure it didn't go over 200, which it didn't. Would the engine die with a temp just over the half way mark? On the agenda for tomorrow is a new impeller and T-stat, but I just wanted to see if anyone else had any idea for other things I could check.
Boat is an 88 as well as the engine.
Thanks
Dave