So I've just redid the whole interior of the boat and decided to tackle the engine. It was running okay just was hard to start.
Anyways here's what I've done as a background. To address the hard staring issue I've rebuilt the carb, set ignition timing, and checked plugs/wires. I have also rebuilt the distributor(cap, rotor, ignition sensor).
It was cranking much better and would usually crank after a few turns without issue so I figured I had solved the issue. We lake tested it a whole day and it seemed to run great. It did however start to be harder and harder to crank. (Essentially just took longer)
While on the lake it ran fine otherwise and we tested it from idle to WOT. It ran 41MPH at nearly 5k rpm. Seemed healthy.
Anyways I came home to address some of the minor issues. I found that my electric choke was unplugged. This might have caused my starting issues after a while. But I decided to check the firing of the cylinders. I unplugged one coil at a time while the engine was running and what I found was when removing wires from cylinder 1,7,6,4 it did not affect the running of the engine at all while 2,3,5,8 if pulling even one almost choked the engine to a halt. So now I'm confused.
After so research I believe I have a carb issue. Since 1,7,6,4 are fueled by one half of my Eddlebrock 1409. I have spark and compression on those cylinders. I am not a carburetor wizard and generally hate them as opposed to fuel injection. But I know that in theory they are simple devices. As my knowledge is limited on this maybe some of y'all can help me out. Especially since I just rebuilt the dang thing.
I did make sure to check floats for minimum and maximum hights. Mine are at 7/16 min between top of float and top of gasket and 1" when fully dropped between top of float and gasket.
Anyways here's what I've done as a background. To address the hard staring issue I've rebuilt the carb, set ignition timing, and checked plugs/wires. I have also rebuilt the distributor(cap, rotor, ignition sensor).
It was cranking much better and would usually crank after a few turns without issue so I figured I had solved the issue. We lake tested it a whole day and it seemed to run great. It did however start to be harder and harder to crank. (Essentially just took longer)
While on the lake it ran fine otherwise and we tested it from idle to WOT. It ran 41MPH at nearly 5k rpm. Seemed healthy.
Anyways I came home to address some of the minor issues. I found that my electric choke was unplugged. This might have caused my starting issues after a while. But I decided to check the firing of the cylinders. I unplugged one coil at a time while the engine was running and what I found was when removing wires from cylinder 1,7,6,4 it did not affect the running of the engine at all while 2,3,5,8 if pulling even one almost choked the engine to a halt. So now I'm confused.
After so research I believe I have a carb issue. Since 1,7,6,4 are fueled by one half of my Eddlebrock 1409. I have spark and compression on those cylinders. I am not a carburetor wizard and generally hate them as opposed to fuel injection. But I know that in theory they are simple devices. As my knowledge is limited on this maybe some of y'all can help me out. Especially since I just rebuilt the dang thing.
I did make sure to check floats for minimum and maximum hights. Mine are at 7/16 min between top of float and top of gasket and 1" when fully dropped between top of float and gasket.
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