96 regal, 5.7L mercruiser, alpha 1...
I backed up a very long distance, maybe 100 feet or so, today at the dock. Afterwards, while going forward the engine was sputering under load, was not right, and a decent amount of fairly dark gray smoke. I got it back to the dock just as it died maybe 30 seconds after I was done backing up.
It acted as if it was flooded when I tried to re-start, but it started up pretty easy. It sputtered for a few seconds but then ran fine? I let it run a bit, shut it off and re-started, no problems at all? We went out, had a great day, ran perfect, no problem.
Could water have gotten up into the exhaust as I was backing up? Or maybe the exhaust got too backed up restricting airflow? I wasn't going that fast (no wake zone).
It's never done this before and I've never backed up that far before so i think the issue may be linked to the backing up? Am I just not suppose to back up that far? That is the only thing I did differently?
Thanks for any thoughts/suggestions.
I backed up a very long distance, maybe 100 feet or so, today at the dock. Afterwards, while going forward the engine was sputering under load, was not right, and a decent amount of fairly dark gray smoke. I got it back to the dock just as it died maybe 30 seconds after I was done backing up.
It acted as if it was flooded when I tried to re-start, but it started up pretty easy. It sputtered for a few seconds but then ran fine? I let it run a bit, shut it off and re-started, no problems at all? We went out, had a great day, ran perfect, no problem.
Could water have gotten up into the exhaust as I was backing up? Or maybe the exhaust got too backed up restricting airflow? I wasn't going that fast (no wake zone).
It's never done this before and I've never backed up that far before so i think the issue may be linked to the backing up? Am I just not suppose to back up that far? That is the only thing I did differently?
Thanks for any thoughts/suggestions.
