Re: White smoke
You should not smell gasoline iin the engine compartment. You will need to find the source before you have an explosion.
Look for leaks along the fuel lines all of the way to the carburetors, and take the cover off the carburetors so that you can determine if fuel is leaking into them because of sticking floats .
This engine is a 115 crossflow, but should have all of the original inboard safety equipment in place. If you have any doubts, please take the boat to a Four Winns dealer.
If you go to the parts manuals on the BRP site and select Turbo Jet in the products pick list, you can get the parts diagrams and parts lists for your engine and drive. Copy this link to your browser without the quotation marks.
"http://epc.brp.com/default.aspx?brands=ej&lang=E"
You can download the parts lists to Excel if you want a copy.
Four Winns has downloads for the boat, which include the steering system and wiriing. Go here and expand the "Past Specifications" for the PDF Files: "http://www.fourwinns.net/fastfacts/index.html"
You may want to contact an Evinrude dealer for the TurboJet Service Manual that you will want if you plan to maintain the boat yourself.
It is typical of two stroke motors to smoke some at start-up because oil has been left in the combustion chambers. Over time, several things cause the OMC Turbojet Engine to smoke more.
One is that the engine has to be pulled in order to service the thermostats, so it does not get done and the engine runs cold.
Secondly, the four recirculation check valves don't get serviced because you have to pull the carbs to get to them, so gunk builds up behind the pistons and causes the motor to run with too rich a mixture.
Third is that it is more complicated to decarb, so that doesn't get done either.
I like the Fling and I completely dissassembled and rebuilt one for my nephew a few years back. It is a lot of fun to run, and 35mph in an open 14' boat feels fast. It pulled one skier OK, too.
