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Tim D 
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 Topic: Boat started missing, then wont fire upPosted: August-02-2006 at 5:38pm |
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Last week I was pulling my neighbors son on his wakeboard and the boat started missing then quit. A few days later it started it again when I was wakeboarding. So I thought it was time to rebuild the carb, so I did and no improvement. Then it knocked off and wouldn't run. So I started checking everything, I even replaced the coil. Then I discovered the cap had two cracks and a pinhole.
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The Dude
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Posted: August-02-2006 at 11:26pm |
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Tim D Rocks! Thanks for sharing.
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Posted: August-02-2006 at 11:50pm |
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Tim,
Funny how such a small crack can make such a big problem! She running ok again? |
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fredo68
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Posted: August-03-2006 at 9:50am |
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my neighbor has a hurricane deck boat with a
4.3 w/40 hrs. on it, its a 04. however his was doing the same thing they pulled the cap off and the contacts had 1/8 in of green growth on them. why would a mrine cap have a paper gasket on it? changed cap runs fine. |
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David F
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Posted: August-03-2006 at 1:25pm |
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Paper gasket makes the unit a marine unit...seals off the cap from fuel vapor (or contains the spark which way you perfer to look at it).
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fredo68
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Posted: August-03-2006 at 1:31pm |
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thanks david, only dumb question is a not asked question.
gracias |
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Tim D
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Posted: August-03-2006 at 5:10pm |
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The gasket isn't all, the posts are brass.
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