nphilbro
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Dec 19, 2011
- Messages
- 304
On our way to the lake this morning I filled my 6 gallon plastic can and 2 1/2 gallon backup since there is nowhere to get fuel on or near this little lake.
We left the dock headed to the other end of the lake. About 5 minutes in my 200 lost speed and power then completely died a few seconds later and then wouldn't restart, even with my 2 gallon backup tank there was not a hint of firing off. I thought, "great, lost a powerpack or rectifier." We drifted to about 20ft from shore where I anchored, pulled the hood and checked the plugs (yep, carry one of those with me). Spark on all six. Whatever, I lowered my kicker (9.9 EV), started it up and made it to about 150 yards from the dock and it died too and wouldn't restart. Anchored again and pulled the hood on the kicker, sprayed fuel into the carb where it would start and die. I rowed to the dock since I new the carb was fubard now.
I got another small can out of my car to make an "extreme carb cleaning mix" and squeezed some fuel into it from the smaller tank. I looked at the gas before adding anything to it and there was a whole bunch of dirt and grit in it. I swirled it around and dumped it back into the can and made sure it was clean and pumped more in from the big can. A bunch more grit!
I must have gotten the literal bottom of the barrel at this po-dunk station.
We I took two 2 1/2 gallon cans to a station 15miles away and filled them. I connected new fuel lines from a roll I keep in my car and mixed up a 1/2 gallon of my carb blowout treatment fuel mix (stabilize very rich and seafoam with 100:1 oil), pulled the plugs on both motors, squeezed through new fuel, blew fuel into the the carbs, gave them a few dry cranks, replaced the plugs and got both motors going. Pulled off the dock to not choke out the people fishing with my exhaust cloud and gave it he11. Burned through the treatment mix, attached the new cans and we were good for the day.
What can I do about all this gas? I can't just dump it, obviously. I remembered later that I punched a hole in the water separator last week pulling my old motor and had to bypass it Thursday morning. Will a new water separator filter this grit out (the fuel probably has a high water content too)? I have a plastic fuel siphon pump that comes apart and I've thought about trying to run it through a coffee filter somehow or stuffing a big wad of cheese cloth in the siphon's chamber. My hull tank is 50 gallon cap. and empty so I could filter it into there through the siphon pump. I'm not as worried about recovering the $30 I paid for the fuel as I am really needing the tank space but don't want to completely foul my hull tank either. I don't want to buy another 6 gallon tank because I rarely use the one I have.
Any other suggestions?
We left the dock headed to the other end of the lake. About 5 minutes in my 200 lost speed and power then completely died a few seconds later and then wouldn't restart, even with my 2 gallon backup tank there was not a hint of firing off. I thought, "great, lost a powerpack or rectifier." We drifted to about 20ft from shore where I anchored, pulled the hood and checked the plugs (yep, carry one of those with me). Spark on all six. Whatever, I lowered my kicker (9.9 EV), started it up and made it to about 150 yards from the dock and it died too and wouldn't restart. Anchored again and pulled the hood on the kicker, sprayed fuel into the carb where it would start and die. I rowed to the dock since I new the carb was fubard now.
I got another small can out of my car to make an "extreme carb cleaning mix" and squeezed some fuel into it from the smaller tank. I looked at the gas before adding anything to it and there was a whole bunch of dirt and grit in it. I swirled it around and dumped it back into the can and made sure it was clean and pumped more in from the big can. A bunch more grit!
I must have gotten the literal bottom of the barrel at this po-dunk station.
We I took two 2 1/2 gallon cans to a station 15miles away and filled them. I connected new fuel lines from a roll I keep in my car and mixed up a 1/2 gallon of my carb blowout treatment fuel mix (stabilize very rich and seafoam with 100:1 oil), pulled the plugs on both motors, squeezed through new fuel, blew fuel into the the carbs, gave them a few dry cranks, replaced the plugs and got both motors going. Pulled off the dock to not choke out the people fishing with my exhaust cloud and gave it he11. Burned through the treatment mix, attached the new cans and we were good for the day.
What can I do about all this gas? I can't just dump it, obviously. I remembered later that I punched a hole in the water separator last week pulling my old motor and had to bypass it Thursday morning. Will a new water separator filter this grit out (the fuel probably has a high water content too)? I have a plastic fuel siphon pump that comes apart and I've thought about trying to run it through a coffee filter somehow or stuffing a big wad of cheese cloth in the siphon's chamber. My hull tank is 50 gallon cap. and empty so I could filter it into there through the siphon pump. I'm not as worried about recovering the $30 I paid for the fuel as I am really needing the tank space but don't want to completely foul my hull tank either. I don't want to buy another 6 gallon tank because I rarely use the one I have.
Any other suggestions?
