mtb_prodigy
Cadet
- Joined
- May 2, 2017
- Messages
- 26
I took her out to sea yesterday and was too tired to flush the engine. Woke up to do it this morning and I noticed I had left the gas cap open and it had rained a little bit. I topped off the tank last night. While flushing it started right up, was at 800 rpms for 10-12 seconds and then the idle started climbing all the way up to 1800 rpms. It steadily climbed to 1800 in about 40 seconds before I shut it off. I noticed black smoke out of the exhaust although that went away once it was at higher rpms. I tried again with the throttle cables disconnected but nothing changed. The engine also dieseled a few times for the first time yesterday. once for 3 seconds, once for 10, and another for 2 seconds. When I got back to shore it turned off properly. Im lost