Eng SN: 1A071822
4.3l v6
Ok. Where do I begin. I have one issue that led to another problem. To start I pulled time boat out of the garage yesterday to de-winterize for the upcoming season. Did all my stern work last fall, engine oil, gear oil, lube job, fogging, etc...
One item I did not accomplish was to replace dist cap which I did yesterday. Well, fired her off and after blowing all the fogging oil out she cranked and idled fine. Waited a few minutes to warm her up before advancing the throttle and gradually increased to 1200 rpm. Once I went pass 1200 rpm it started to backfire. Lowered back to idle, no problem. Increase rpm and once it hit 1200 rpm it began to backfire. So today I pulled the fuel/water separator filter and saw no obvious junk or water. Traced the wires to make sure I hadn't crossed a plug when changing the distributor cap but all is in order. I pulled each plug to check fouling and no issues there...I think. When pulling no. 2 plug I had troubles getting to the wire boot to re-seat it because the wire harness leading from the alternator was in the way. Disconnected the wire harness and re-routed so I could get to plug. As I was pulling the alt wire harness back in place the black lead touched the red lead and a brief spark ensued. "Great!" I thought to myself as I knew that would lead to another issue....which it has.
After getting her all buttoned up, muffs on and water flowing, I turned the ignition key and nothing, except that loud obnoxious beep when you switch on the ignition.
So here I am not knowing what to do next which is why I'm turning to you knowledgeable folks. I need to get the engine to crank so I can see if my tinkering around had any affect on my backfire problem. Any thoughts?
4.3l v6
Ok. Where do I begin. I have one issue that led to another problem. To start I pulled time boat out of the garage yesterday to de-winterize for the upcoming season. Did all my stern work last fall, engine oil, gear oil, lube job, fogging, etc...
One item I did not accomplish was to replace dist cap which I did yesterday. Well, fired her off and after blowing all the fogging oil out she cranked and idled fine. Waited a few minutes to warm her up before advancing the throttle and gradually increased to 1200 rpm. Once I went pass 1200 rpm it started to backfire. Lowered back to idle, no problem. Increase rpm and once it hit 1200 rpm it began to backfire. So today I pulled the fuel/water separator filter and saw no obvious junk or water. Traced the wires to make sure I hadn't crossed a plug when changing the distributor cap but all is in order. I pulled each plug to check fouling and no issues there...I think. When pulling no. 2 plug I had troubles getting to the wire boot to re-seat it because the wire harness leading from the alternator was in the way. Disconnected the wire harness and re-routed so I could get to plug. As I was pulling the alt wire harness back in place the black lead touched the red lead and a brief spark ensued. "Great!" I thought to myself as I knew that would lead to another issue....which it has.
After getting her all buttoned up, muffs on and water flowing, I turned the ignition key and nothing, except that loud obnoxious beep when you switch on the ignition.
So here I am not knowing what to do next which is why I'm turning to you knowledgeable folks. I need to get the engine to crank so I can see if my tinkering around had any affect on my backfire problem. Any thoughts?