Sharphooks
Well-Known Member
Just took delivery of a new-to-me boat. It has twin Suzukis with approx. 200 hours on them. The boat was used as a promotional rig so all those hours were put on it since May 2020. In that short period of use, somebody dumped gas station fuel into the tank (wtf???)
Prior to taking delivery I saw what was in the plastic bowls of both filters and asked that the fuel filters be changed-out. That didn’t happen and I didn’t notice it until I drove away with the boat and flopped it in the water.
Short story—I tried to drain that crap out of the Raycor-type plastic bowls via stop-**** but it was so thick and sludgy it wouldn’t budge——NASTY STUFF!
So the next morning, one of the Suzukis dies on me. What a way to start off boat ownership! I don’t know much about nothing but I suspected a filter issue and sure enough, one of the filters had lost its prime while trying to drain that crap out
So by that time, I was fuming. I missed my entire spring season, all I wanted was a measeley coho, and here I was dead in the water with my new boat—— I wrote a love letter to the guy who sold me the boat. OF course, that company is all about customer satisfaction so the owner immediately offered to send one of his guys down to siphon the remaining fuel out of the tank (all 400 liters of it)
So here’s the question: When you see that thick sludge in a Raycor bowl, is that normal for E10? I’ve never seen it get that bad in so short a period of time
I’ve put maybe two hours of run time on the boat and there’s already a layer of crap back in the bowl
I posted on another marine website and one guy asked if there might be water intrusion through the gas cap
Thanks for any comments out there on what I should do: Should I use sharp elbows and get the guy to pump out the tank pumped or should I just shut up, pour some Stabil in the tank, run all the E10 out of it, change the filters, then go on with life
Thanks for the comments
I should add that both outboards seemed to run fine once I got the filters properly primed
Prior to taking delivery I saw what was in the plastic bowls of both filters and asked that the fuel filters be changed-out. That didn’t happen and I didn’t notice it until I drove away with the boat and flopped it in the water.
Short story—I tried to drain that crap out of the Raycor-type plastic bowls via stop-**** but it was so thick and sludgy it wouldn’t budge——NASTY STUFF!
So the next morning, one of the Suzukis dies on me. What a way to start off boat ownership! I don’t know much about nothing but I suspected a filter issue and sure enough, one of the filters had lost its prime while trying to drain that crap out
So by that time, I was fuming. I missed my entire spring season, all I wanted was a measeley coho, and here I was dead in the water with my new boat—— I wrote a love letter to the guy who sold me the boat. OF course, that company is all about customer satisfaction so the owner immediately offered to send one of his guys down to siphon the remaining fuel out of the tank (all 400 liters of it)
So here’s the question: When you see that thick sludge in a Raycor bowl, is that normal for E10? I’ve never seen it get that bad in so short a period of time
I’ve put maybe two hours of run time on the boat and there’s already a layer of crap back in the bowl
I posted on another marine website and one guy asked if there might be water intrusion through the gas cap
Thanks for any comments out there on what I should do: Should I use sharp elbows and get the guy to pump out the tank pumped or should I just shut up, pour some Stabil in the tank, run all the E10 out of it, change the filters, then go on with life
Thanks for the comments
I should add that both outboards seemed to run fine once I got the filters properly primed
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