jeremyeasen
Seaman
- Joined
- Jun 20, 2002
- Messages
- 72
Many more weekends like these and I'll be buying a Yamaha, but lets see if I can keep it going awhile longer. Waterpump, stats, rectifier are all new, and the heads inside are clean. Also I have removed the ball bearing check valve at the tank outlet. We ran 15 miles out, trolled at 6 knots for 2 hours, and everything was great. I got back up to plane at about 4800 rpms heading in and the overheat alarm went off. My gauge, which I've found with infrared to be accurate, says 145 deg. I took off cowling, block wasn't hot. I disconnected both overheat sensors in block but alarm was continuous after backing off throttle and restarting. VRO is disconnected at oil tank and pump. I decided I hate this motor so I continued home anyhow. Then it was acting as if it had a fuel restriction, loss of throttle and getting worse. We made it in slow and steady. It would run high speed fine for awhile and then sputter to 2000. It was completely intermittent. Two questions to start...will the fuel rest. sensor go off at all with the motor off and ignition on? Two...all filters and line are new in the boat. If my pickup is getting clogged in the tank, what do the pros do about cleaning it out or replacing a pickup when its welded onto the top of the tank? If its a boat problem my new yamaha wont do me any good. Will a bad power pack create symptoms similar to fuel deprivation? that's one easy fix that I could do. would that explain the strange alarm buzzing? thank you in advance for everyone's help? Maybe one day I'll have an easy question