4x15mph
Jetboaters Admiral
- Messages
- 1,845
- Reaction score
- 1,077
- Points
- 282
- Location
- Downingtown, PA
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2018
- Boat Model
- AR
- Boat Length
- 21
Boat was all ready to go as far as I knew and it ran great in the driveway yesterday hooked up to the hose. This morning, my son and I decided to do the first run of the season which we like to do "conservatively". Somehow I chose a brand new place that is on the Delaware river thinking this would be straight forward and we would have a lot of great places to choose from.
Dunked the boat in and engines would not run for very long.... so many things to look at and drifting down the river had us hesitating about going for it. We turned back. Looked the boat over and found both cooling outlets/pee holes clogged. I pulled them off the engine and could not blow through them. Yellow stuff came out of them and we got them cleared by banging them against the boat - what was that yellow stuff????. We tried again and still had problems so I figured it could be fouled plugs since I fog a lot for the winterizing and this summarize did not include new plugs. We run to the auto store and get new plugs and it sounds great in the parking lot. Dunk it in and similar issues.... real bad but we still had so much fun if you can believe that.
We came home and I looked over the boat; fuel, air, spark..... I checked the compression and everything was great. I then checked the fuel shutoff valves - both off? Yup.... think that is likely the issue. No fuel, no run but why did it run on the hose and why would it even start eventually? It probably has something to do with the electric fuel pump I put on so it probably draws "some" fuel but that is a guess. Fingers crossed that the problem was the fuel shut-off and I will not know until I put it back in the water.
Embarrassed to write this but I think the moral of the story is to follow a checklist when summarizing - clean pee holes and turn on fuel! This is the reason my wife said I should not consider getting my pilots license which I wanted to do... She is right and I will never fly a plane
Dunked the boat in and engines would not run for very long.... so many things to look at and drifting down the river had us hesitating about going for it. We turned back. Looked the boat over and found both cooling outlets/pee holes clogged. I pulled them off the engine and could not blow through them. Yellow stuff came out of them and we got them cleared by banging them against the boat - what was that yellow stuff????. We tried again and still had problems so I figured it could be fouled plugs since I fog a lot for the winterizing and this summarize did not include new plugs. We run to the auto store and get new plugs and it sounds great in the parking lot. Dunk it in and similar issues.... real bad but we still had so much fun if you can believe that.
We came home and I looked over the boat; fuel, air, spark..... I checked the compression and everything was great. I then checked the fuel shutoff valves - both off? Yup.... think that is likely the issue. No fuel, no run but why did it run on the hose and why would it even start eventually? It probably has something to do with the electric fuel pump I put on so it probably draws "some" fuel but that is a guess. Fingers crossed that the problem was the fuel shut-off and I will not know until I put it back in the water.
Embarrassed to write this but I think the moral of the story is to follow a checklist when summarizing - clean pee holes and turn on fuel! This is the reason my wife said I should not consider getting my pilots license which I wanted to do... She is right and I will never fly a plane
