jamie N
Well-known member
I didn't know whether to place the thread here, PBO or in the Lounge, so bear with me please.
Today, my wife dropped me at the marina with the "I'm shopping,.....a couple of hours....essential stuff etc.etc." thing.
Great, I'd a few things to do on the boat, including giving the engine a 'run'.
Onboard, I started the engine and ran it in gear, the plan being to give it a bit of a workout, good charge on the batteries and check that everything worked.
About 45 minutes later, I'm fabricating having a spice rack by my stove (seriously), when the engine began to die, and then failed within a period of about 5 seconds, which is quick.
OK; the temperature and oil pressure were fine, and there were no strange noises, or other hints at all. The engine had been chugging along at about 1/2 power on the pontoon, and appearing content.
A bit vexed by this, I shut everything down, pondered for a minute, then pumped the fuel bulb, and started the engine in the usual way. It caught and ran perfectly for a minute, before I became aware of a whining sound, but from the pontoon where my wife was standing, asking why I'd not answered any of her calls......? Ah, that's the whine then.
OK, engine off, shutdown the system and a full on burst of "Oh sweetie, I'm SO sorry! I didn't hear your call......."etc.etc. She came aboard, a cup of tea was prepared and chit chat about queues in Aldi were listened to attentively.
Now, tomorrow, I'm back at the boat, and (of course) still want to know why the engine stopped, and restarted so easily.
It's got fuel written all over it, however I checked the tank, and there was fuel visible.
Here's the thing though, there's no mast on my small Folkboat, the fuel tank is 'fore & aft', with the fuel pipe at the front of the tank, therefore the fuel lays away from the pipe, thus with the mast off, a fairly small light boat is lying a few degree's bow up/stern down, the fuel pipe 'uphill' in the tank.
Plan for tomorrow is to fill the tank a bit, and start the engine to see what happens, (without the pressure of an Aldi intervention cutting into fault rectification.)
Any ideas to counter the fuel thought? No odd smoky stuff from the exhaust, nothing abnormal heard apart from the "whine", which isn't really too unusual.
Today, my wife dropped me at the marina with the "I'm shopping,.....a couple of hours....essential stuff etc.etc." thing.
Great, I'd a few things to do on the boat, including giving the engine a 'run'.
Onboard, I started the engine and ran it in gear, the plan being to give it a bit of a workout, good charge on the batteries and check that everything worked.
About 45 minutes later, I'm fabricating having a spice rack by my stove (seriously), when the engine began to die, and then failed within a period of about 5 seconds, which is quick.
OK; the temperature and oil pressure were fine, and there were no strange noises, or other hints at all. The engine had been chugging along at about 1/2 power on the pontoon, and appearing content.
A bit vexed by this, I shut everything down, pondered for a minute, then pumped the fuel bulb, and started the engine in the usual way. It caught and ran perfectly for a minute, before I became aware of a whining sound, but from the pontoon where my wife was standing, asking why I'd not answered any of her calls......? Ah, that's the whine then.
OK, engine off, shutdown the system and a full on burst of "Oh sweetie, I'm SO sorry! I didn't hear your call......."etc.etc. She came aboard, a cup of tea was prepared and chit chat about queues in Aldi were listened to attentively.
Now, tomorrow, I'm back at the boat, and (of course) still want to know why the engine stopped, and restarted so easily.
It's got fuel written all over it, however I checked the tank, and there was fuel visible.
Here's the thing though, there's no mast on my small Folkboat, the fuel tank is 'fore & aft', with the fuel pipe at the front of the tank, therefore the fuel lays away from the pipe, thus with the mast off, a fairly small light boat is lying a few degree's bow up/stern down, the fuel pipe 'uphill' in the tank.
Plan for tomorrow is to fill the tank a bit, and start the engine to see what happens, (without the pressure of an Aldi intervention cutting into fault rectification.)
Any ideas to counter the fuel thought? No odd smoky stuff from the exhaust, nothing abnormal heard apart from the "whine", which isn't really too unusual.
