christo555
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- Aug 12, 2010
- Messages
- 49
hello to all you boaters that love to get good but old things working again,
well, i'm baffled. when i was buying this chrysler sport satellite boat 3 months ago, we did a test ride and though motor was hard to start, it ran strong and smooth for the next hour or so of testing, so i bought it.
the hard starting i fixed by replacing the choke solenoid(was sticking open and closed), replacing the battery terminals(rusty, intermittent), and cleaning all the ground connections(don't know if they were bad, just good idea from what i've read on posts)
using a 150 gallon water tank with water inlet ports covered by water, i was able to start easy and test run at 1000rpm and run it up to 3 or 4 thousand rpm off and on for 30 minutes total time, occasionally putting it into forward and reverse. seemed to me that all was perfect. so, i stopped working on the engine and had fun ordering cushions, boat cover, tach, seats, fun stuff for the next ten days.
and on the eleventh day, i returned to the boat and lowered the engine from it's tow tilt position to into the water tub and started it up which it did easy on first try, and motor ran smooth for about 90 seconds like before(i had a big smug smile on me that i fixed the starting problem so well ) and it died.
what the heck? i waited 5 seconds, hit start, started easy and smooth for 60 seconds and died.
well, to keep it a little short, dispite a new cd unit(had and have good spark), gas from tank comes out good from hose going into the fuel pump, fuel filter on side of pump is clean, spraying started fluid when it's dying, pumping fuel bulb whole time, new fuel mix in tank, watching one spark plug wire sparking an external plug while it's running for 30 seconds(starts easy even with only two of three cylinders hooked up), it still won't keep running more than 10 seconds or so now.
i'm baffled as to how in ten days i went from perfect start and run to start easy and run only 10 to 30 seconds.
so, if anybody has any ideas as to what has happened to cause this to happen, please let me know.
was so happy, proud and now sad disappointed in my ability to fix things,
christo555
well, i'm baffled. when i was buying this chrysler sport satellite boat 3 months ago, we did a test ride and though motor was hard to start, it ran strong and smooth for the next hour or so of testing, so i bought it.
the hard starting i fixed by replacing the choke solenoid(was sticking open and closed), replacing the battery terminals(rusty, intermittent), and cleaning all the ground connections(don't know if they were bad, just good idea from what i've read on posts)
using a 150 gallon water tank with water inlet ports covered by water, i was able to start easy and test run at 1000rpm and run it up to 3 or 4 thousand rpm off and on for 30 minutes total time, occasionally putting it into forward and reverse. seemed to me that all was perfect. so, i stopped working on the engine and had fun ordering cushions, boat cover, tach, seats, fun stuff for the next ten days.
and on the eleventh day, i returned to the boat and lowered the engine from it's tow tilt position to into the water tub and started it up which it did easy on first try, and motor ran smooth for about 90 seconds like before(i had a big smug smile on me that i fixed the starting problem so well ) and it died.
what the heck? i waited 5 seconds, hit start, started easy and smooth for 60 seconds and died.
well, to keep it a little short, dispite a new cd unit(had and have good spark), gas from tank comes out good from hose going into the fuel pump, fuel filter on side of pump is clean, spraying started fluid when it's dying, pumping fuel bulb whole time, new fuel mix in tank, watching one spark plug wire sparking an external plug while it's running for 30 seconds(starts easy even with only two of three cylinders hooked up), it still won't keep running more than 10 seconds or so now.
i'm baffled as to how in ten days i went from perfect start and run to start easy and run only 10 to 30 seconds.
so, if anybody has any ideas as to what has happened to cause this to happen, please let me know.
was so happy, proud and now sad disappointed in my ability to fix things,
christo555