rickasbury
Senior Chief Petty Officer
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Isn't that the way? Boating not for the faint of heart unless you are rich- I'm not.
2006 350 mpi/bravo III. Around 350 hours, 270 Rinker.
It does not get run as it should, but has been running nice- and everything else- but then it does not.
Replaced plugs,cap and router probably 30 hours ago. It had a miss. I had a bad fuel problem and had to pump out 75 gallons of fuel and dispose. Replaced all the filters- and the high pressure fuel pump (one by the filter starboard ) . I've replaced the raw water impeller a couple times- that's about all the issues I've had.
Checked all the fluid levels, verified the outdrive cycles properly, trim tabs fully extend. Usually it takes maybe 7 seconds for it to plane out and runs nicely around 30- its a heavy boat.
Starts right up, idles smoothly and comes up to temp- head out, accelerate and it will not get on plane at 3500 rpm, usually it's running nice at that rpm. Wide open and no reaction beyond that. Like there is to much weight in the back. Opened the hatch, all looks good. The water tank and holding tanks (25 gallon) near full but that has not been a problem, no large mermaids on the rear.
Another odd thing I have a cold water tap up at the helm- the water has become suddenly hot. I have a small hot water heater below and the pump. I have replaced the pump a couple of times and did so recently and only noticed after a couple short trips out. Those are pretty much plug and play. I noticed after I turned the pump off, I turned on the facuet to let the pressure off it seemed to have super pressure and ran for longer than normal. I know the engine sends hot water through the heater, if something rots out inside could that mingle into the fresh water and pressurize the system? We are fresh water and it looks ok.
Also seems like my alternator bearing or internally making noise or all of the above. Also noticed the tone alters when I raised the hatOK. It seems to make a strong hum but hard to isolate to the alternator. I have a raw and fresh water pump....
and lastly, I only checked the bilge once because of the suspected alternator noise. I saw no real amount of water...and that was after it again would not get on plane- we fished a while and did not go far. Tried to run it again on the short trip back, it did start to plane but started falling off so I pulled the throttle back. When I go to storage as it is trailered, there was a ton of water in the boat when I pulled the plug.
I'm heading to the ramp so I can spend a little one on one. It has a/c, a generator, a head with a pump- so 1000 holes in the bottom when you start to add them up.
I'll be checking this thread on the water and update if I can.
Thanks!
.
2006 350 mpi/bravo III. Around 350 hours, 270 Rinker.
It does not get run as it should, but has been running nice- and everything else- but then it does not.
Replaced plugs,cap and router probably 30 hours ago. It had a miss. I had a bad fuel problem and had to pump out 75 gallons of fuel and dispose. Replaced all the filters- and the high pressure fuel pump (one by the filter starboard ) . I've replaced the raw water impeller a couple times- that's about all the issues I've had.
Checked all the fluid levels, verified the outdrive cycles properly, trim tabs fully extend. Usually it takes maybe 7 seconds for it to plane out and runs nicely around 30- its a heavy boat.
Starts right up, idles smoothly and comes up to temp- head out, accelerate and it will not get on plane at 3500 rpm, usually it's running nice at that rpm. Wide open and no reaction beyond that. Like there is to much weight in the back. Opened the hatch, all looks good. The water tank and holding tanks (25 gallon) near full but that has not been a problem, no large mermaids on the rear.
Another odd thing I have a cold water tap up at the helm- the water has become suddenly hot. I have a small hot water heater below and the pump. I have replaced the pump a couple of times and did so recently and only noticed after a couple short trips out. Those are pretty much plug and play. I noticed after I turned the pump off, I turned on the facuet to let the pressure off it seemed to have super pressure and ran for longer than normal. I know the engine sends hot water through the heater, if something rots out inside could that mingle into the fresh water and pressurize the system? We are fresh water and it looks ok.
Also seems like my alternator bearing or internally making noise or all of the above. Also noticed the tone alters when I raised the hatOK. It seems to make a strong hum but hard to isolate to the alternator. I have a raw and fresh water pump....
and lastly, I only checked the bilge once because of the suspected alternator noise. I saw no real amount of water...and that was after it again would not get on plane- we fished a while and did not go far. Tried to run it again on the short trip back, it did start to plane but started falling off so I pulled the throttle back. When I go to storage as it is trailered, there was a ton of water in the boat when I pulled the plug.
I'm heading to the ramp so I can spend a little one on one. It has a/c, a generator, a head with a pump- so 1000 holes in the bottom when you start to add them up.
I'll be checking this thread on the water and update if I can.
Thanks!
.