C17LoadSmasher
Petty Officer 2nd Class
- Joined
- Nov 24, 2001
- Messages
- 152
Hey all. I have a 2001 Mercruiser 3.0L Alpha One, and it was doing a lil something odd yesterday, I thought I might draw upon the vast knowledge and experience of y'all for this one. It ran just fine, then we notices like a ticking, tinny noise coming from the back end, IE, motor. It seemed like the motor was doing fine though. Later on, it seemed like we had a lag in power, the day was coming to a close so I babied her in, nice gradual accelerations, no more than 1/2 throttle. When we were slowing to dock it decided it did not want to run in fwd idle, or neutral, had to gas it a little. Curious as to what that might be. When I flushed it out, the engine ran fine once again until at idle, lots of shaking, etc, and then finally died. Any ideas? Fuel filter? Cylinder not firing? Any help would be most appreciated! <br /><br />TIA...<br /><br />Chris