Hi all, I finally have this thing running pretty good. After a few rounds with the carbs coming off and on I finally got the floats right. Thanks to you guys and the Boat Doctor, and Paul in Panama City Fl. Great advice but they refuse to touch it. So now I'm becoming somewhat of an x-pert with there help or lack of help depending how you look at it. Anyway... to the latest issue...
the water pump seems to pump more air than water at higher RPMs so I took the foot off inspected the impeller (new last year) and all was good so back together for another go around the lake. At low speed it pumps great and I'm confident it is cooling the power head. But at higher RPMs it seems to not pump as much water and I'm concerned that it may hurt the motor by not getting enough water to do the job. There is no alarm, no temp gauge, no pressure gauge just me guessing if it's going to melt down at any minute. So I go slow. At least until someone can shine some light on this new (to me) delema. Could this be a product of cavitation not letting the foot get enough water to pump or am I way off?
the water pump seems to pump more air than water at higher RPMs so I took the foot off inspected the impeller (new last year) and all was good so back together for another go around the lake. At low speed it pumps great and I'm confident it is cooling the power head. But at higher RPMs it seems to not pump as much water and I'm concerned that it may hurt the motor by not getting enough water to do the job. There is no alarm, no temp gauge, no pressure gauge just me guessing if it's going to melt down at any minute. So I go slow. At least until someone can shine some light on this new (to me) delema. Could this be a product of cavitation not letting the foot get enough water to pump or am I way off?