Hi had a new engine fitted late last last year and after looking at a lot of rust on the butterfly and throttle plates I had the carb rebuilt. It was all nice and sparkly !
I have a 3.0Gs with a holley 2barrel carb (500 I belive) in a 180 fourwinns horizon 1999
I'm trying to look after this engine as best I can and sometimes when doing some minor bits to it this season have annoying seen condensation water droplets on the engine after removing its cover .
This weekend after leaving it in the sea four a couple of nights ( using it for the two days) I had to drive it in quite heavy rain to the dock and loaded it onto the trailer . A fair bit of water did get onto the boat and I used the bilge pump for a while before loading it on to the trailer.
I had to put the cover on the boat yesterday and leave it as the weather got worse.
Today when cleaning it out and starting it to flush it the start was really rough and a bit of smoke from the exhaust , it then continued to idle rough. I pulled the flame arestor incase it was blocked to find the butterfly rusted and droplets of condensation on the inside top of the flame arestor and droplets and crude on the throttle plates.
The boat may have been running at low temp lately but I have felt it and it feels ok, all hoses are warm so I was thinking it was more a gauge fault, but could that be a thought to condensation in the carb.
What's the best way to eradicate the bilge of condensation, fan maybe to a solar panel?
Many thanks in advance
I have a 3.0Gs with a holley 2barrel carb (500 I belive) in a 180 fourwinns horizon 1999
I'm trying to look after this engine as best I can and sometimes when doing some minor bits to it this season have annoying seen condensation water droplets on the engine after removing its cover .
This weekend after leaving it in the sea four a couple of nights ( using it for the two days) I had to drive it in quite heavy rain to the dock and loaded it onto the trailer . A fair bit of water did get onto the boat and I used the bilge pump for a while before loading it on to the trailer.
I had to put the cover on the boat yesterday and leave it as the weather got worse.
Today when cleaning it out and starting it to flush it the start was really rough and a bit of smoke from the exhaust , it then continued to idle rough. I pulled the flame arestor incase it was blocked to find the butterfly rusted and droplets of condensation on the inside top of the flame arestor and droplets and crude on the throttle plates.
The boat may have been running at low temp lately but I have felt it and it feels ok, all hoses are warm so I was thinking it was more a gauge fault, but could that be a thought to condensation in the carb.
What's the best way to eradicate the bilge of condensation, fan maybe to a solar panel?
Many thanks in advance