jayelwin
Member
SO my 2003 220 with the 305 ci (5.0L MPI) motor all of a sudden wont idle. SO I've been using it all summer no problem at all. Starts and runs fine. Then I'm in the water at the end of a tow rope skis on after a few miles back and forth yesterday tubing and skiing (nothing harsh at all). And I hear my friend say "the boat just stalled". HE can get it started but only with extra throttle and then putting back in idle it stalls. Ugh. I climb on board and we get it started again. I manage to get it into gear after a few tries and we motor back to the dock. At that point it planed and ran at speed fine but as soon as I got close to the slips and put putted in at idle we stall again. Inertia got us close enough to get thrown a line and we are able to pull ourselves in.
So in the slip I played with it for a while. It will start with extra throttle but as soon as you put it in idle it stalls.
And the whole trip back to the dock it was doing two beeps. Temp good at 130-140. Good volts. Good oil pressure around 40 I think I recall.
Could this be something simple? I'm headed to the boat with a few hours tuesday I was wondering what I could try to do to fix it before I talk to the marina guys ($$$$). Something electric I could check? Fuel filter? (not even sure where that is).
The one clue I have is when we finally got it into gear that last time it was sputtering and sounded bad and I had the rear hatch open and I wiggled the thing that the 8 spark wires come out of and that suddenly made it run better so we could plane. Still stalled after that though.
So what could suddenly have gone wrong?
I've rebuilt several vintage Japanese motorcycles as a gauge of my mechanical ability. So feel free to recommend something fairly advanced that I can try with motor in boat.
Thanks.
-Josh
So in the slip I played with it for a while. It will start with extra throttle but as soon as you put it in idle it stalls.
And the whole trip back to the dock it was doing two beeps. Temp good at 130-140. Good volts. Good oil pressure around 40 I think I recall.
Could this be something simple? I'm headed to the boat with a few hours tuesday I was wondering what I could try to do to fix it before I talk to the marina guys ($$$$). Something electric I could check? Fuel filter? (not even sure where that is).
The one clue I have is when we finally got it into gear that last time it was sputtering and sounded bad and I had the rear hatch open and I wiggled the thing that the 8 spark wires come out of and that suddenly made it run better so we could plane. Still stalled after that though.
So what could suddenly have gone wrong?
I've rebuilt several vintage Japanese motorcycles as a gauge of my mechanical ability. So feel free to recommend something fairly advanced that I can try with motor in boat.
Thanks.
-Josh