![]() This meant you had to be very careful how you throttled back enough to engage drive so you did not damage the gearbox. It still wouldn’t idle and had to be revved excessively to keep it going. Problems persisted with the engine when we got it back. I should have investigated the problem more thoroughly, but I handed over the cash and we set off again. However, the engine was only four years old, and although the tank had been topped up with new fuel we agreed that it must have been old fuel in the carburettor causing the problem. I should have been more cautious, because the engine would not idle properly and the seller seemed to have to rev it excessively to keep it from cutting out. There were very few boats out, and on the radio we even heard a Mayday being called in, so by the time my son and I got to see the engine I was keen to buy it and get back again. The signalling horn also got such a drenching it would not work again afterwards and needed to be replaced. In fact, things got so lively that water from waves breaking over the boat was forcing itself through the wheelhouse windows, and the thumping we got even left a cabin light hanging down by its wires below. It was full of debris which would soon get stirred up with any movement Old or dirty fuel can often be a problem with outboards, but I hadn’t seen any quite like this before. Now, although it is only a short crossing, Solent waters can get pretty frisky (as many readers will know), and this was one of those days. So I made a bit of a rushed trip over in our Seaward 23 to see it. I saw an advert for a Suzuki DF2.5 on the Isle of Wight, the same lightweight engine as I’d had before. However, it turned out to be a bit of a case of ‘buy in haste, repent at leisure’. I always worry something might happen to it, so I decided I needed to sort myself out with a replacement engine pretty quickly. Unfortunately it had developed a gearbox problem that was not going to be straightforward to fix.Ī friend kindly loaned me a Honda 2hp to tide me over, but I never feel comfortable borrowing other people’s equipment. ![]() It only took me a few trips of rowing my trusty tender up the busy River Hamble to my main boat to make me realise how much I missed the convenience and ease of my little outboard engine. This weekend past at the start of the Grand Prix season, it would appear that the start of the campaign by the new world champion is marred by what appears to be issues caused by E10 petrol.Ī good enough reason to revisit this article on how to clean the carburettor on a small 4 stroke outboard which seem to be particularly vulnerable if left for a time with E10 fuel in them. ![]() ![]() Even F1 teams are suffering from E10 fuel woes. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |