Re: Vovo Penta outdrive clutch
Don, I'm sort of suspecting fuel to be the issue too. I did pull the water separator off and drain it but it didn't make a difference. I put on a new water separator/filter today but can't get out to the lake to run it right now. <br /><br />The one thing that is weird about it being fuel is that there wasn't any surging like it was starving for fuel. I have had fuel problems on cars I built in the past and they will surge under load if they don't get enough fuel.<br /><br />I did put some paint on the prop and it's defineitely not spinning on the rubber piece. <br /><br />If I have an air leak it came about all of a sudden cause like I said before, it was fine when I throttled down and 2 minutes after that it started acting up.<br /><br />One other thing I can tell you that might have added to the problem, both my exhaust manifold couplings were leaking water, don't know when this started. I tightened the clamps and that took care of that. I thought maybe some water got into the carb but I ran it for awhile and it still did the same thing.<br /><br />Last of all I can tell you this, I have a cummins diesel in my truck and it has a governor that shuts off the fuel at 2700 rpm, this problem reminds me of that except that the cummins will pretty much shut down but the boat motor acts like it's fighting to keep reving but something is pulling on the rear. Almost as if I've got a skier that weighs about 500lbs and he's holding back the boat.<br /><br />I appreciate the help, if you think of anything else I'm all ears. I may just bite the bullet and take it in to a shop, I just don't see them being able to troubleshoot it out of the water.<br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />Brad
