mriversinco
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- Jan 7, 2012
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Hi,
I bought a new to me boat this spring and have got a problem that I'd like some help with. When I bought the boat, the previous owner left me with a nasty little surprise of one of the fuel tanks having really bad gas in it. The other fuel tank had a leak in the lines so I was drawing air through it. Since then, I've drained that bad tank and replaced all fuel lines on the boat. I figured I might have some motor problems from accidentally running that gas through but I was hoping not. When it happened, the motor died and I was able to start it and idle back to the dock.
The boat has two motors on it, a main and a kicker. The kicker is a mercury 9.9 carb that started hard the next few trips but now runs very well.
The main motor is a 95 200hp 2.5 liter mercury xri. It ran fine the first couple of times out after that episode but now has some problems. It bogs down after being run for 15-20 minutes when I try to throttle up. If I put the motor into neutral and throttle up a couple of times the motor then runs fine for 5 minutes or so under load but starts to bog down again. I'm thinking maybe some of the injectors are clogged, or there's other filters I don't know about but was hoping someone here could help.
Things I've done:
1. Drained the gas tanks and filled the clean tank with gas and seafoam mix (haven't used the dirty tank since draining it)
2. Changed the fuel filter/ separator in the motor
3. Changed all the plugs
4. Have run seafoam in the gas for about 6 trips which is probably a total of 3 hours of run time on the big motor.
Thanks for your help.
I bought a new to me boat this spring and have got a problem that I'd like some help with. When I bought the boat, the previous owner left me with a nasty little surprise of one of the fuel tanks having really bad gas in it. The other fuel tank had a leak in the lines so I was drawing air through it. Since then, I've drained that bad tank and replaced all fuel lines on the boat. I figured I might have some motor problems from accidentally running that gas through but I was hoping not. When it happened, the motor died and I was able to start it and idle back to the dock.
The boat has two motors on it, a main and a kicker. The kicker is a mercury 9.9 carb that started hard the next few trips but now runs very well.
The main motor is a 95 200hp 2.5 liter mercury xri. It ran fine the first couple of times out after that episode but now has some problems. It bogs down after being run for 15-20 minutes when I try to throttle up. If I put the motor into neutral and throttle up a couple of times the motor then runs fine for 5 minutes or so under load but starts to bog down again. I'm thinking maybe some of the injectors are clogged, or there's other filters I don't know about but was hoping someone here could help.
Things I've done:
1. Drained the gas tanks and filled the clean tank with gas and seafoam mix (haven't used the dirty tank since draining it)
2. Changed the fuel filter/ separator in the motor
3. Changed all the plugs
4. Have run seafoam in the gas for about 6 trips which is probably a total of 3 hours of run time on the big motor.
Thanks for your help.
