Eric Eberle
New Member
- Jul 6, 2020
- 2
- Boat Info
- 2001 Searay Sundeck 5.0 Merc
- Engines
- 2001 Mercruiser 5.0
2001 Sundeck 210. 5.0 Merc
Bought last summer and ran great. With the exception of the gas gauge which I was able to fix with cleaning up the sending unit this spring.
This spring changed the fluids, and oil filter.
Boat has ran great until this last weekend.
As I never trust a boat gauge and since I just fixed the gauge I wanted to see what The levels where 3/4, 1/2, 1/4 to stay on the safe side.
1/2 filled on the gauge was right at 20 gallons used.
I pushed the gauge next time to about a 1/4. Filled up with 24 gallons
Next time I was just below 1/4 and boom boat shut down like it was out of gas. I filled it up and only got 21 gallons in before it started burping out. Boat has a 50 gallon tank. Checked to see if the vents and vent screen where clear and they where.
Boat pretty much ran as long as I didn’t go below half on the gas gauge or below 20 gallons used.
That came to an end on July 4th.
Turned the boat off and now it won’t start
Checked the fuel Pick up which was clean and intact. Plan on changing the anti-syphon valve. But don’t think that’s the issue as I was able to pull fuel consistently down 20 gallons why would it only pull 20 gallons. Fuel filter is next. Just curious on what else I should be looking at.
Bought last summer and ran great. With the exception of the gas gauge which I was able to fix with cleaning up the sending unit this spring.
This spring changed the fluids, and oil filter.
Boat has ran great until this last weekend.
As I never trust a boat gauge and since I just fixed the gauge I wanted to see what The levels where 3/4, 1/2, 1/4 to stay on the safe side.
1/2 filled on the gauge was right at 20 gallons used.
I pushed the gauge next time to about a 1/4. Filled up with 24 gallons
Next time I was just below 1/4 and boom boat shut down like it was out of gas. I filled it up and only got 21 gallons in before it started burping out. Boat has a 50 gallon tank. Checked to see if the vents and vent screen where clear and they where.
Boat pretty much ran as long as I didn’t go below half on the gas gauge or below 20 gallons used.
That came to an end on July 4th.
Turned the boat off and now it won’t start
Checked the fuel Pick up which was clean and intact. Plan on changing the anti-syphon valve. But don’t think that’s the issue as I was able to pull fuel consistently down 20 gallons why would it only pull 20 gallons. Fuel filter is next. Just curious on what else I should be looking at.