motor and gas

Bigshrimpin · #1 08-31-2007, 03:51 PM

Yo . . . Young1 - The problem isn't the motor. The check valve/anti-siphon valve is on your fuel tank . . . NOT on your MOtta. They go to sh1t all the time.

If you don't have a check valve on the tank . . . then your vent (on the TANK)

is blocked.

I replaced my check valve with a regular 3/8" brass nipple . . . but the check valve provides you with some level of saftey if you're motor caught fire. Fire will supposedly only burn back to the check valve.

Capt Chuck · #2 08-31-2007, 04:34 PM

Quote:

If you don't have a check valve on the tank . . . then your vent (on the TANK) is blocked.

Right-On Tim!
Since he lives in Fl and by chance his SeaCraft has been sitting around, I'll betcha one of those Mud Dobber Wasps built a nest in the vent line

BTW: You need to keep the "O-Ring" on the fuel fill cap lubricated. The gas will dry it out and crack. Then every time you wash you boat or it rains, guess what enters the fuel tank

david76 · #3 09-02-2007, 11:13 AM

well i have decided to pull the tank and put a new one in i ran on the xternal all day yesterdayand she ran like a champ.

Bigshrimpin · #4 09-02-2007, 12:11 PM

Uh . . . my car ran out of gas . . . I think I'm going to the dealer to buy a new car

david76 · #5 09-02-2007, 02:58 PM

funny ha ha not funny queer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

strick · #6 09-02-2007, 03:38 PM

Quote:

If you don't have a check valve on the tank . . . then your vent (on the TANK)

is blocked.

Usually if you vent is blocked or clogged you will not be able to fill the tank the vapors will back flow out the fill and kick off the safty on the pump handle.

BTW Youngone, Bigshrimpin is not a queer I know for a fact he likes women:

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strick

david76 · #7 09-02-2007, 11:37 PM

that was a joke about the funny hah ha anyways my tank is just falling apart its old time to update so im going to buy one the way i see this right now i dont have a boatg payment i have repaires and mods when i go buy my next boat it will bea yacht!!!!!!!!

Old'sCool · #8 09-03-2007, 12:36 AM

What a beautiful young lady!!

Bigshrimpin · #9 09-03-2007, 03:37 AM

Young1 - What do you want a yacht for? and why did you go though the trouble to have the tank cleaned, pressure tested and then put back into your boat . . . if you were just going to buy a new one. If the problem is wasps in your vent hose . . . a new gas tank isn't going to solve your problem.

oldfielder · #10 09-03-2007, 09:19 AM

When I got my boat I could hardly get gas into the tank the vent screen was so corroded-it would back right up the fill. The funny thing, though, was that it didn't seem to affect the motor's performance . Sounds like that anti-siphon is jamming up.