shockerfd
New Member
I'll do my best to describe how things happened. Boat is a 1997 Challenger 1400. Went out yesterday and the boat ran fantastic. Went out today in a white capping bay. Boat was running fine. About 15 mins later we sat at idle to get tube ready. Put boat in gear and throttle. Nothing. I can move throttle back and forth and nothing. No rpm rise or anything. Suddenly like a switch, boat takes off. Very strange. Boat runs fine for a few minutes and then loses power. There is a lot of grass in the bay so I thought I sucked some up. Did the clean out thing. Start boat back up and now it's popping. Try to move throttle a little off idle and it shuts off. I do this several times with the same result. Now I just put new plugs in before the trip out. I had new ones on the boat as well. So, I change them out to rule out that possibility. Nothing. Can hardly get boat to start. Sometimes starter shuts off after a second of cranking. I spend an hour waiting and trying to get this thing to start. When it does start as soon as you move throttle slightly past idle it shuts off. The 5 year old is scared. I finally flag down a boat to get towed back. Back at home now. I see a little bit of grass in propeller and do my best to clean it out but not convinced this is my problem. Time to try flush out. Gets started, pops a few times and then seems to run normal. Boat won't rev past 3000rpms. Is there a rev limiter in neutral? Any ideas? Thanks!!!
