richwit
New Member
i have a 33 ft sundancer and the starboard engine had a fuel leak when the engine was running for awhile. limped home on one motor and got back to the dock and ran the motor for 15 minutes and no leak visible. any sugestions
fuel leak
- Thread starter richwit
- Start date
- Apr 26, 2009
- 5,819
- Boat Info
- '97 330 Sundancer, Raymarine C80 suite with radar, Mercury 310 Hypalon w/8hp Yammie 2stk
- Engines
- 2X 454 carbs w/ vDrives
Get your carbs rebuilt. Sounds like a stuck float or similar issue that cause an overflow. Did the engine bog down and stall?
On a very related note, you got lucky you did not blow up the boat. Never run an engine with a gas leak or gas smell in the bilge. Get towed.
On a very related note, you got lucky you did not blow up the boat. Never run an engine with a gas leak or gas smell in the bilge. Get towed.
KHE
Member
- Feb 28, 2012
- 238
- Boat Info
- 1997 Sea Ray 240 Sundancer
- Engines
- Mercruiser 5.7L EFI alpha 1 Gen 2 drive
Creekwood, Wouldn't a '97 have throttle body fuel injection?
Richwit, Check the fuel lines from the water separator to the fuel pump. Sometimes with age, they leak fuel at the crimp where the rubber portion of the line is joined to the stainless steel.
Richwit, Check the fuel lines from the water separator to the fuel pump. Sometimes with age, they leak fuel at the crimp where the rubber portion of the line is joined to the stainless steel.
- Apr 26, 2009
- 5,819
- Boat Info
- '97 330 Sundancer, Raymarine C80 suite with radar, Mercury 310 Hypalon w/8hp Yammie 2stk
- Engines
- 2X 454 carbs w/ vDrives
Not all. Engine choices in 97 included 454 w/carburators @310hp, 454 w/MPI@310hp, and 454 Horizons w/MPI @380hp.
Mine has carbs. Nice and simple. Just pump throttle twice then start when cold, and just start when warm.
Alegria
Well-Known Member
I had carbs as well. There is an ignition module in the distributor green/white and red/white wires. That will fail intermittently and act as you described. Lack of ignition will dump fuel and make is smell like a leak. Not bad to change if you are comfortable with it. You can move it to the other engine and see if the problem follows. Or just replace. I had a carb rebuild tune up and finally changed the module and the problem disappeared.
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