mattkinz
Cadet
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- Oct 18, 2009
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I have gotten a new engine and don't want to destroy it like the last one.
I had some trashy stuff in the tank. The fill tube is really small and inside diameter is something like 1/4 inch diameter . The fill tube that has a little stainless screen inside .
Some trashy stuff got into the fill tube and and had a ball valve effect. I found the boat would falter at certain speeds and I could throttle down than it would work again for awhile. I removed the tube once and mopped and sucked out all the gloppy stuff I could find but now some months later the inside of the tank has some trashy stuff again.
I overheated my prior 175 hp engine until it is junk and just mounted a Yamaha 150. I am afraid of just mopping out what I can see as the intake tube is so small, it can get a small chunk of trash and then run lean.
I don't know if running lean is what destroyed my last engine but do not want a repeat. the old engine was a 1985 evinrude and the little plastic screens (poor design) in the lower unit had become brittle and broken. The engine may have sucked some seaweed and clogged a water tube, though. I had noted a little ball valve effect before the overheat , however, and wonder if that led to the destruction. I thought a fuel sock might help but have great difficulty accessing the tip of the tube from the sender hole. any advice on this problem?
The tank is aluminum and is nice and shiny but for some blackish trashy stuff. I have difficulty seeing anything much as I can just see into a 2 inch sending hole only.
I have seen that changing out the gasoline tubes may help and I am planning to do that, too. any further advice would be appreciated. MK
I had some trashy stuff in the tank. The fill tube is really small and inside diameter is something like 1/4 inch diameter . The fill tube that has a little stainless screen inside .
Some trashy stuff got into the fill tube and and had a ball valve effect. I found the boat would falter at certain speeds and I could throttle down than it would work again for awhile. I removed the tube once and mopped and sucked out all the gloppy stuff I could find but now some months later the inside of the tank has some trashy stuff again.
I overheated my prior 175 hp engine until it is junk and just mounted a Yamaha 150. I am afraid of just mopping out what I can see as the intake tube is so small, it can get a small chunk of trash and then run lean.
I don't know if running lean is what destroyed my last engine but do not want a repeat. the old engine was a 1985 evinrude and the little plastic screens (poor design) in the lower unit had become brittle and broken. The engine may have sucked some seaweed and clogged a water tube, though. I had noted a little ball valve effect before the overheat , however, and wonder if that led to the destruction. I thought a fuel sock might help but have great difficulty accessing the tip of the tube from the sender hole. any advice on this problem?
The tank is aluminum and is nice and shiny but for some blackish trashy stuff. I have difficulty seeing anything much as I can just see into a 2 inch sending hole only.
I have seen that changing out the gasoline tubes may help and I am planning to do that, too. any further advice would be appreciated. MK
