After fishing we had some idle issues the other day. Decided to drain and clean out my fuel tank.
Being a 1995 boat, long overdue in my opinion.
We launched and headed to the fuel dock. Made it about 15 minutes and we had a high heat alarm.
Shut her down and headed back after some cooling time.
We removed the thermostats and found one non op.
Bought a new upgraded pair from Yamaha, she ran cool but a little pop here and there.
We launched and had no issues.
Made it to the fuel dock.
Had all the old E 10 sucked out. It ended up being 80 gallons due to a bad gauge sending unit.
This is Enrique, I have known him for 30 years (He has worked for Gary for that long).
Here is Todd doing the fuel polishing. The tank was a little dirty, not too bad though.
He spend some time and did the detail work, even chased the threads on the tank bolt holes.
He also got me new screws and some extras for when the new sender comes in.
Getting down to the bottom. He then used a scrub brush feed with new fuel and did a final scrub rinse out.
Looked really clean once he was done.
The final stages, all cleaned up and new fuel in her.
Only added in 20 gallons of fuel. I will work off this and add to as needed. They did a new fuel filter and I was on my way back home.
So I get back to the ramp, there is a guy sitting on the ramp pumping up his inflatable??
A couple of guys were yelling at him to move somewhere.
I just take it all in, kinda funny really.
I guess it wasn't a busy day so what the hell?
At the completion of the work, Todd suggested once I get home to drain the carb bowls. I guess the E 10 settles to the bottom.
We were on it once we arrived home.
We cracked the carbs and had a little thicker haze? Kinda like corn syrup but thinner.
One carb was bone dry, had no fuel in it??
Took the carb off the motor and removed the bowl. The floats needle valve was stuck Upon inspection, there was a burr in the area.
We shaved it down with a exacto knife. Worked it real careful. It was smooth after that.
Once re installed, we could here the fuel fill into the carb.
We knew we had it right.
We put the outboard on muff's and fired her up.
She ran like a top.
Fast idle first, at 1300 rpm, then dropped down to 600 rpm after a minute or so, not a miss at all.
We also decided to replace the impeller as well. It had been almost 175 hours on the old one.
Bought the whole kit at a local Yamaha dealer, he gave me a great price point without asking. We did the replacement in about 1 hour.
Changed the lower oil while we were at it.
After reassemble, We fired her up again, checked the forward and reverse and water pressure.
BTW, the exhaust chamber looks great, no corrosion at all, very nice looking.
She is running really good now, all ready for fishing this season.
We will go out on Sunday for a Fathers day cruise.
We are fishing on Tuesday and Thursday, lets see how she does.
