Ok, this problem has only risen since I did a bunch of work to the motor, it ran fine before, I replaced the old VRO pump since it was over-fueling #4, I put in a regular fuel pump, and at the same time I put in a spin on water separating fuel filter, and replaced the thermostats as well. When I first ran it after that, it was a ***** to start and ran very poorly, wouldn't idle and sounded like it was misfiring, was running on muffs, the overheat alarm also went off, so I shut it down and went and borrowed my FIL's box to run the motor in that way, I put it in the box full of water, now it started great and ran fine and never overheated! So I thought all was well with it, and left it for a month, so today I wanted to take it out to run it in the lake and make sure it was fine, so same thing happened today, was really hard to get going, it would fire then die, did that probably 12 times until it would keep running, and it was running rough, so I let it idle for a few minutes, seemed to smooth out a little, so I tried to take off, well, no power wouldn't get on plane. So I just fired up my kicker and fished a little, about 15min later I thought I'd try to start the big motor, it fired as soon as I touched the key and idled great, so I tried to get on plane, it did and ran fine, after a minute it powered out and had no power, I backed off the throttle, 10s later it ran fine again, lots of power would run up to just below 5krpm, I backed out and cruised at 3k, then same thing again, powered out, I backed out of it, and again would smooth out and run fine again, so it will just keep doing that cycle, so I just stopped trying before I fried something, and went home.
I have not done the carbs or plugs in this yet, I know I should, but it ran great before all this work.
Thanks
Will
I have not done the carbs or plugs in this yet, I know I should, but it ran great before all this work.
Thanks
Will
