Howdy, It seems to be getting worse. boat runs great anything over 800 rpms. but when coming off plane pulling throttle down it hunts like crazy and sometimes dies. I really have to baby it to make sure it has some gas. for an MPI this confuses me. IAC has been changed new plugs wires all...
I'm so used to running on inland lakes that when we saw this dead calm water with about as low of a risk of bad weather as you can have on Lake MI we went for it. loved the 3 hour ride of nothing but open water. to be honest more about that then being in the town of S Haven.
we made the trip. northpoint straight across to South Haven ~77 miles each way. tied up at the municipal for couple of hours then made the trip back we couldn't stay over. Next time we will though. We filled to the brim with fuel before leaving NP then re-filled before leaving South Haven...
holy cow i can't believe it someone else has the EXACT same problem I do and my mechanic cannot fix it either. We've done pretty much everything mention above except injectors but nothing has fixed it. bummer having to learn to live with it.
thanks for the info. so far volt gauge is normal. next step to put the meter on the alternator to see what it's putting out but I need to buy or borrow one. fingers crossed nothing bad happened. I will never laugh when I hear about someone making a dumb mistake like this.
A wonderful bone head maneuver. Engine is running battery switch on both, battery switch turned to 1 for a while, battery switch then turned to OFF with engine running and continued to run for about 5 minutes then turned engine off and noticed the battery switch was off. don't ask me why in...
Oh boy I think this will be over my mechanical ability. But thanks for all the info I'm going to check around some of the marinas for pricing but at least it sounds like Bravo bellows might be cheaper than alpha because of being less intensive.
Thanks for the good info.
Water pump is on the engine so don't need to worry about that.
Never had water leaking so gimbal is good and has been greased every year since I have the drive pulled and inspected annually, also grease u joints, and check alignment.
The only reason I'm thinking of...