[Rhodes22-list] ladies & gents, start your engines

[David Bradley]

Joe, that's what I learned as well.  I always run the motor out of gas
when I'm not planning to use the boat again right away.  When I went
to start the motor this spring it started first touch of the starter
button.

What filter are you going to install?  That needs to be my next project.

Thanks,

Dave


On 5/26/09, Joe Babb <joe.babb at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I wrote in a while ago about my Yamaha 9.9 outboard stalling when I
> tried to run at anything higher than an idle.  I tried
> cleaning out the carb with a strong dose of Sea Foam but it wasn't
> enough.  I finally bit the bullet and took it to a Yamaha mechanic who
> disassembled the carb and found grime and gunk therein.
> I asked how I could best avoid this problem in the future.  His strong
> advice was to run the engine on a regular basis.  Apparently, gasoline
> turns kind of varnishy and yucky after a time.  Even adding an extra
> inline fuel filter won't help prevent the gas in the bowl of the carb
> from turning.  Adding Stabil or Sea Foam helps and should be done also,
> but running the engine is the best all round cure.  So I'm guessing
> about once a month during the winter months when the boat is laid up.
> He did strongly recommend adding the fuel/water separating filter which
> I'm going to do this weekend.
> Hope this helps some of you to avoid the same sort of problem I had.
> Joe
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