Island Time Buffalo
Active Member
I have a similar issue to a couple other recent posters, just recently started. 1999 carbureted Westerbeke gas genny....It would run anywhere from 5 minutes to two hours and then just quit and not start until everything was cold.... not just the Genny, but the entire bilge had to be cold.
Maybe it's just coincidental, because I'm having a hard time making sense of it, but the observed symptom was that it would start when the engine room was cold, and would NOT start if the boat engines were running for any period of time. And if I started the boat engines AFTER the genny, the genny would continue to run for a bit, but quit after some period of time..... sooner if I didn't run the bilge fan.
Then it devolved.. now it will start and run (a) if cold and (2) ONLY if I keep holding the START/PREHEAT button.
Maybe it's just coincidental, because I'm having a hard time making sense of it, but the observed symptom was that it would start when the engine room was cold, and would NOT start if the boat engines were running for any period of time. And if I started the boat engines AFTER the genny, the genny would continue to run for a bit, but quit after some period of time..... sooner if I didn't run the bilge fan.
Then it devolved.. now it will start and run (a) if cold and (2) ONLY if I keep holding the START/PREHEAT button.
