Mike C 123
Cadet
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- Jul 5, 2013
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Hello All,
I took my boat out yesterday. Initially, I didn?t have enough battery to get it started, so we pulled one from the truck to jump start it and it fired right up and ran strong all day until we stopped for a swim. When I wanted to start up the boat to re-anchor, the boat would not start up. It was getting at least some fuel in the carb and at one point it seemed like it wanted to start. I had the engine cover off for about an hour before trying to get it to start before calling for a tow and it wouldn't even start using starting fluid sprayed into the carb.
We finally called for a tow. In the process of being towed back I tried starting it again with on luck.
However, when we finally got back to the dock 3.5 hours later I decided to give it one more try and it fired up right away. I turned it off again, and it had a hard time restarting. But the next four on-off attempts it would start with no problem. It was running normally at all throttle levels before and at the dock.
I have the approximate 1995 aged Mercruiser 5.7 non-fuel injection Chevy 350 version of the engine. Any ideas of where to start troubleshooting this problem?
Many thanks,
Mike
I took my boat out yesterday. Initially, I didn?t have enough battery to get it started, so we pulled one from the truck to jump start it and it fired right up and ran strong all day until we stopped for a swim. When I wanted to start up the boat to re-anchor, the boat would not start up. It was getting at least some fuel in the carb and at one point it seemed like it wanted to start. I had the engine cover off for about an hour before trying to get it to start before calling for a tow and it wouldn't even start using starting fluid sprayed into the carb.
We finally called for a tow. In the process of being towed back I tried starting it again with on luck.
However, when we finally got back to the dock 3.5 hours later I decided to give it one more try and it fired up right away. I turned it off again, and it had a hard time restarting. But the next four on-off attempts it would start with no problem. It was running normally at all throttle levels before and at the dock.
I have the approximate 1995 aged Mercruiser 5.7 non-fuel injection Chevy 350 version of the engine. Any ideas of where to start troubleshooting this problem?
Many thanks,
Mike