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Admiral
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well, i got let down on sat. my first outing. no one to go out with me so went by myself.
so i did the winterization thing last fall. i did the summerization thing on sat. morning. ya know. compression test, points, plugs (gapped by me @ .035"), condenser, cap, rotor. dwell at 32-33*. timing @ 6* btdc. ran great in the driveway. so off to the lake i go. toss it in the drink. starts right up. warmed up, no leaks from having the bellows off to R&R the water hose. things are looking good. i putz around the bay a bit and all is going well. so i venture off into the lake. throttle up and it just dies... like turned off the ign. cranks fine, no start.
so i get out my no start trouble shooting guide by dons. i found a fallacy of that post. it takes two people onboard to do some of the tests. being by myself. i couldn't even turn it over to see if i had a spark. ya can't be at the engine and the helm at the same time.
so anyways, get towed back in. hang out at the dock. wiggled some wires. lateeda. side note. prior to going out, i went through as many wires as i could find and removed and shined them up with emery. grounds especially. only thing i found was i needed to tighten up my cap a little bit more on one of the two screws. the other thing i found was my choke had not pulled off. i thought it was warm enough to pull off but made sure it was open by manually adj. the choke to open.
so. i think ign. problems. when i get back to it. i guess i plan on just going through the trouble shooting guide in s/m #2 for no start, electrical. see if i see anything abnormal... any other insight?
after i got it running at the ramp. finally convinced myself that it was gonna run. so took it back out into the lake. no issues the rest of the day. pretty much ran it 3 hours straight with a few turn it off and turn it on to see if i was hip. it performed flawlessly after my no start issue. wot @ 4300. idles (600rpm) and shift great. no over heat... on that. i sure do feel good about having a water hose w/o a kink in it. she sure was lower on the temp gage than last fall with the kink. i sure was treading on thin ice with that kink. though don't think i overheated it. ran a shade on the warm side though. never got over halfway up on the temp gage. normal is below the hash marks though. so she was running warm..
any thoughts?
so i did the winterization thing last fall. i did the summerization thing on sat. morning. ya know. compression test, points, plugs (gapped by me @ .035"), condenser, cap, rotor. dwell at 32-33*. timing @ 6* btdc. ran great in the driveway. so off to the lake i go. toss it in the drink. starts right up. warmed up, no leaks from having the bellows off to R&R the water hose. things are looking good. i putz around the bay a bit and all is going well. so i venture off into the lake. throttle up and it just dies... like turned off the ign. cranks fine, no start.
so i get out my no start trouble shooting guide by dons. i found a fallacy of that post. it takes two people onboard to do some of the tests. being by myself. i couldn't even turn it over to see if i had a spark. ya can't be at the engine and the helm at the same time.
so anyways, get towed back in. hang out at the dock. wiggled some wires. lateeda. side note. prior to going out, i went through as many wires as i could find and removed and shined them up with emery. grounds especially. only thing i found was i needed to tighten up my cap a little bit more on one of the two screws. the other thing i found was my choke had not pulled off. i thought it was warm enough to pull off but made sure it was open by manually adj. the choke to open.
so. i think ign. problems. when i get back to it. i guess i plan on just going through the trouble shooting guide in s/m #2 for no start, electrical. see if i see anything abnormal... any other insight?
after i got it running at the ramp. finally convinced myself that it was gonna run. so took it back out into the lake. no issues the rest of the day. pretty much ran it 3 hours straight with a few turn it off and turn it on to see if i was hip. it performed flawlessly after my no start issue. wot @ 4300. idles (600rpm) and shift great. no over heat... on that. i sure do feel good about having a water hose w/o a kink in it. she sure was lower on the temp gage than last fall with the kink. i sure was treading on thin ice with that kink. though don't think i overheated it. ran a shade on the warm side though. never got over halfway up on the temp gage. normal is below the hash marks though. so she was running warm..
any thoughts?