- Messages
- 1,903
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- Points
- 307
- Location
- Knoxville, TN
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2015
- Boat Model
- Limited S
- Boat Length
- 24
So, my family did a camping vacation this past weekend. My Father-In-law, Mother-in-law, my brother-in-law and his family and the 6 of us in my family spend Thursday til today down at Lake Shelbyville. Our boys slept in a tent, while my wife and I slept in my inlaw's 38 foot 5th wheel. My Brother in law and his family stayed in their 36 foot travel trailer. Was great weather the entire time and the water was 85 degrees!\
Friday evening, as we were getting ready to head in for the night, I had a hard time starting my Starboard engine. This is quite odd, since I have never, ever had to even crank the engine more than a second to get it started. I was puzzled. I opened the engine hatch to see if anything stuck out. Nothing. I closed the hatch and tried starting again and YES, it started. One of my boys asked if I fixed it. I said, no, but it's started and let's head back. I raced to the ramp and made it all the way to the no wake zone. As I decelerated both throttles, the port decelerated as expected, but the starboard did not. It would not decelerate so I turned the engine off to avoid disaster. I then proceed to limp to the ramp on one engine. While limping in, I started to go through all the possible causes in my head. I let my wife off to go get the trailer and while waiting I started to remove the engine cover and all the bolts for the spark plugs. I thought, surely it must be the plugs.
Getting the boat on the trailer was challenging but not too bad. while my wife was trailering us back to the adjacent camp ground, I tried to start the boat and it started right up, but over-rev'd as if I had pushed the throttles to WOT. I did that a few more times and it either did not start or started in an over-rev'd state. Why would the engine not start then start but over-rev'd? Then it dawned on me. Earlier, I was showing my son how the sound insulation was hanging. I was telling him that everyone was complaining about theirs and I was wondering what the big deal was since mine had not yet started to hang. I remembered showing him where it was hanging over the starboard throttle. I jumped up, looked at that area and sure enough, the insulation was between the throttle. So.....I was not able to start her because the throttle was stuck open. The times I got it started, it was reving high because the throttle was stuck in that position. I then, moved the insulation out of the way and started her up and she started up easily like she normally would. What a relieve.
As relieved as I was, I could not help to think of what a disaster it could of been if I did not have the presence of mind to shut the engine off when it would not decelerate. What a silly little safety issue. I will have my dealer submit this to Yamaha and request a safety recall. I however, went to Walmart and bought some spray adhesive. It worked like a champ and the rest of the trip was trouble free.
Friday evening, as we were getting ready to head in for the night, I had a hard time starting my Starboard engine. This is quite odd, since I have never, ever had to even crank the engine more than a second to get it started. I was puzzled. I opened the engine hatch to see if anything stuck out. Nothing. I closed the hatch and tried starting again and YES, it started. One of my boys asked if I fixed it. I said, no, but it's started and let's head back. I raced to the ramp and made it all the way to the no wake zone. As I decelerated both throttles, the port decelerated as expected, but the starboard did not. It would not decelerate so I turned the engine off to avoid disaster. I then proceed to limp to the ramp on one engine. While limping in, I started to go through all the possible causes in my head. I let my wife off to go get the trailer and while waiting I started to remove the engine cover and all the bolts for the spark plugs. I thought, surely it must be the plugs.
Getting the boat on the trailer was challenging but not too bad. while my wife was trailering us back to the adjacent camp ground, I tried to start the boat and it started right up, but over-rev'd as if I had pushed the throttles to WOT. I did that a few more times and it either did not start or started in an over-rev'd state. Why would the engine not start then start but over-rev'd? Then it dawned on me. Earlier, I was showing my son how the sound insulation was hanging. I was telling him that everyone was complaining about theirs and I was wondering what the big deal was since mine had not yet started to hang. I remembered showing him where it was hanging over the starboard throttle. I jumped up, looked at that area and sure enough, the insulation was between the throttle. So.....I was not able to start her because the throttle was stuck open. The times I got it started, it was reving high because the throttle was stuck in that position. I then, moved the insulation out of the way and started her up and she started up easily like she normally would. What a relieve.
As relieved as I was, I could not help to think of what a disaster it could of been if I did not have the presence of mind to shut the engine off when it would not decelerate. What a silly little safety issue. I will have my dealer submit this to Yamaha and request a safety recall. I however, went to Walmart and bought some spray adhesive. It worked like a champ and the rest of the trip was trouble free.
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