PburgDooey
New Member
OK, this happened to me last year, and I decided to post it here for anyone getting ready for the season.
Heres the story: I have a 98 speedster. Last year I was out with my wife and our dog, and the engines both bogged down and stalled. I opened the engine hatch and smoke fumed from the engine compartment. I checked the oil, the spark plugs, the cooling system, everything checked out fine. Closed the hatch, and fired them back up.
They bogged down again and stalled again after about about a minute. I could not for the life of me figure out why BOTH engines were stalling. (I probably would have figured it out, but by this point my wife was going crazy and we had the dog on board. Too much chaos for any real concentration on the problem) I could not even limp back to the dock on one engine.
It got to the point where they would only crank, and not start. So I had to call for a tow.
Got home and ran it on the hose. I searched high and low for the issue, when out the corner of my eye I saw smoke and water coming out from behind the port engine. I traced it around to the exhaust duct, which had become disconnected from the baffle/muffler (black zigzagged plastic piece on the side of the hull)
About 30 seconds after i retightened the hose clamp, it fired right up without an issue. I figured the starboard issue was because it was simply choking itself with all the exhaust leaking from the port side. Now, had i known this was the problem when i was on the water, I would have left the hatch open to vent to smoke, then eventually limped home on the starboard.
Needless to say, checking the tightness of the hose clamps on the exhaust line is routine for me now. Never had a problem again.
Heres the story: I have a 98 speedster. Last year I was out with my wife and our dog, and the engines both bogged down and stalled. I opened the engine hatch and smoke fumed from the engine compartment. I checked the oil, the spark plugs, the cooling system, everything checked out fine. Closed the hatch, and fired them back up.
They bogged down again and stalled again after about about a minute. I could not for the life of me figure out why BOTH engines were stalling. (I probably would have figured it out, but by this point my wife was going crazy and we had the dog on board. Too much chaos for any real concentration on the problem) I could not even limp back to the dock on one engine.
It got to the point where they would only crank, and not start. So I had to call for a tow.
Got home and ran it on the hose. I searched high and low for the issue, when out the corner of my eye I saw smoke and water coming out from behind the port engine. I traced it around to the exhaust duct, which had become disconnected from the baffle/muffler (black zigzagged plastic piece on the side of the hull)
About 30 seconds after i retightened the hose clamp, it fired right up without an issue. I figured the starboard issue was because it was simply choking itself with all the exhaust leaking from the port side. Now, had i known this was the problem when i was on the water, I would have left the hatch open to vent to smoke, then eventually limped home on the starboard.
Needless to say, checking the tightness of the hose clamps on the exhaust line is routine for me now. Never had a problem again.
