Gas Issues

[Jgarc091]

Jorge, I was flushing my '95 mariner 200 last night and it shut off after 30 sec at idle. I knew something was wrong because I ran it last Saturday right before Isaac and it seemed fine. I turned it on again with a little throttle to try warming it up and cleaning the carbs out. Well I realized it was running very rough, woulnt stop smoking, dumping lots of oil from the exhaust, and would not stay on at idle.

This morning I put the fuel hose from the engine with only the primer bulb into a 2.5gal tank of gas with oil premixed 50:1 (I had the oil pump removed last year when the powerhead was rebuilt) and got the engine running good as new after a few minutes on that fresh clean gas. So I cleaned out the racor and all the fuel lines and siphoned out about a gallon of gas straight from the tank into a bucket. That's about as much as it took to come out noticeably clearer that at the start. I hooked everything back up and then the engine ran great after that.

Seems like I got some water and/or condensation during the storm and the humid days after. Try what I did before you go pulling the tank, shouldn't take more than an hour or so. Try keeping the boat level with the front jacked up for several hours to let any water settle near the pickup tube before siphoning.