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- From: jadams@vixen.cc.bellcore.com (adams,john)
- Subject: Re: Outboard Problems
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 14:15:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.141520.7543@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- References: <1992Nov17.145055.15383@zehntel.com>
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- In article <1992Nov17.145055.15383@zehntel.com> mikeg@zehntel (Mike Goldstein) writes:
- >I am having a problem with a 1981 Evinrude 140 (non-VRO).
- >It starts fine, runs okay, accelerates fine, but after a few
- >seconds at high speed it drops dead - doesn't run rough or cough,
- >just stops cold. It restarts fine.
- >Any ideas? I suspect the fuel pump. I was alone with it so I couldn't
- >pump the primer bulb while it was running to test this theory. What
- >else should I look for?? The boat is drydocked now until spring.
- I'd check for constrictions in the fuel line as well. Sometimes the pickup screen
- in the tank itself becomes coated with schmutz! Kinks and/or bends sometimes do
- the same as clogged filters. A fuel line collapsed on me about four years ago
- with exactly the same effect.
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