I have read many of these forms, and there is some great advice out there so I will try my luck.
I have a 1990 Well Craft 195 Eclipse with a Mercuriser 260 V-8 with an alpha one drive.
All of a sudden boat started stumbling all over itself when trying to run it out. It will idle fine, rev up in neutral fine and seems to run the first few minutes fine, but then falls on it's face. You can work the throttle and every once in a while, very slim, you can get it to run its self out. It seems to run fine until you touch the throttle, or the speed of the boat changes(waves).
It will not get up on plane it is a constant back and fourth of the throttle trying to get it to run.
Heard a clicking noise, and noticed the coil was sparking itself(?) so we replaced the coil(one from autozone) the problem did not change. The sparking was fixed, but not the running of the boat.
Installed a see through in line fuel filter just before the water sep.. The fuel is clean, but the fuel filter does not fill up completely when your running the boat, it seems to only fill up maybe 1/2 way and does not change.
We unhooked the choke completely, no change at all.
Could this be a dist. cap and rotor problem? They look OK, but you never know, or should I focus on the fuel delivery system.
Any help would be appreciated. And thanks for your help.
I have a 1990 Well Craft 195 Eclipse with a Mercuriser 260 V-8 with an alpha one drive.
All of a sudden boat started stumbling all over itself when trying to run it out. It will idle fine, rev up in neutral fine and seems to run the first few minutes fine, but then falls on it's face. You can work the throttle and every once in a while, very slim, you can get it to run its self out. It seems to run fine until you touch the throttle, or the speed of the boat changes(waves).
It will not get up on plane it is a constant back and fourth of the throttle trying to get it to run.
Heard a clicking noise, and noticed the coil was sparking itself(?) so we replaced the coil(one from autozone) the problem did not change. The sparking was fixed, but not the running of the boat.
Installed a see through in line fuel filter just before the water sep.. The fuel is clean, but the fuel filter does not fill up completely when your running the boat, it seems to only fill up maybe 1/2 way and does not change.
We unhooked the choke completely, no change at all.
Could this be a dist. cap and rotor problem? They look OK, but you never know, or should I focus on the fuel delivery system.
Any help would be appreciated. And thanks for your help.
