I have a 1982 Celebrity 898, 188v. This has a Rochester 2GV setup. I've had the boat less than a month and it's my first one ever.
We took it out twice and it would not idle after having it in the water for a couple of hours. I've been wrenching on all sorts of vehichles for over thirty years so I applied general knowledge in diagnosing my issue.
My appraoch was to clean/empty the entire fuel system. Tank emptied, hard lines removed/cleaned, rebuild carb, replace fuel/water separator, replace plugs with OEM recommended.
Every thing went well, and after finnaly getting a prime off the fuel pump it ran fine with two exceptions. 1)there is a lag in throttle response, but if you advance slowly it comes up fine. 2)Fuel consumption seems high, but not knowing the characteristics of the gauge or the size of the tank it's hard to tell.
The real question is looking at the front of the carb, there are two screws in the base, I am presuming idle and mixture. I have not been able to find true information on this particuler carb that tells me how to tune.
In addition, I'm only getting 3800 rpm WOT. I think this is low but you need some background. When having trouble idling the second time out, during the course of trying to return to the trailer, we drifted and I got in too shallow and dinged the prop pretty good. I dressed it up a bit and went on. I understand that a bad prop can reduce your RPM's. What are you thoughts?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
We took it out twice and it would not idle after having it in the water for a couple of hours. I've been wrenching on all sorts of vehichles for over thirty years so I applied general knowledge in diagnosing my issue.
My appraoch was to clean/empty the entire fuel system. Tank emptied, hard lines removed/cleaned, rebuild carb, replace fuel/water separator, replace plugs with OEM recommended.
Every thing went well, and after finnaly getting a prime off the fuel pump it ran fine with two exceptions. 1)there is a lag in throttle response, but if you advance slowly it comes up fine. 2)Fuel consumption seems high, but not knowing the characteristics of the gauge or the size of the tank it's hard to tell.
The real question is looking at the front of the carb, there are two screws in the base, I am presuming idle and mixture. I have not been able to find true information on this particuler carb that tells me how to tune.
In addition, I'm only getting 3800 rpm WOT. I think this is low but you need some background. When having trouble idling the second time out, during the course of trying to return to the trailer, we drifted and I got in too shallow and dinged the prop pretty good. I dressed it up a bit and went on. I understand that a bad prop can reduce your RPM's. What are you thoughts?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
