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I hope someone can give me a little help here. I have a 182 Bow Rider powered by a 4.3L mercruiser. I have 320 hours on the motor.
This weekend I started having some serious problems with power loss. While pulling the kids down the lake on a tube I started experiencing momentary power loss. When we hit a wave or heavy chop the motor loses power dropping a couple hundred rpms then coming back up. By the end of the weekend this was happening with even very light rolling chop. I had noticed this happening once last year in severe conditions but it only happened one time so I didn't make much of it.
The motor runs fine otherwise. Starts right up, jumps out of the hole and ran 48 mph at wot with four passengers on board.
What do y'all think? Could it be the fuel pump going out? Loose electrical on fuel pump? Bad fuel filter? I'm at a loss. Any help the group could send my way is greatly appreciated. There is a lot of summer left...
This weekend I started having some serious problems with power loss. While pulling the kids down the lake on a tube I started experiencing momentary power loss. When we hit a wave or heavy chop the motor loses power dropping a couple hundred rpms then coming back up. By the end of the weekend this was happening with even very light rolling chop. I had noticed this happening once last year in severe conditions but it only happened one time so I didn't make much of it.
The motor runs fine otherwise. Starts right up, jumps out of the hole and ran 48 mph at wot with four passengers on board.
What do y'all think? Could it be the fuel pump going out? Loose electrical on fuel pump? Bad fuel filter? I'm at a loss. Any help the group could send my way is greatly appreciated. There is a lot of summer left...