Trophy Fishing TN Forum - Caney Fork Trout Fly Fishing - Caney Fork Trout Guide
General Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: icthus on September 01, 2022, 03:54:24 PM
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Went fishing the other night, made a 20 minute ride to a flat that has been holding some larger reds. Headed back, and made it under the bridge and the new engine starts sputtering, like it was running out of gas. I called my dad, (he is the one that set the gas gage) said all was good, must have been a bad wire, maybe thats why your showing half a tank instead of empty. Does not make sense to me, but he is Pops and knows about everything so I let it go. By this time, when I squeeze the bulb the boat takes off. So I hammer down, run 4400 rmp--- 6.8 mpg, back to the ramp in less then 10 minutes. Back to idol and a idiot alarm comes on. Get the boat on the trailer make it home, rinse everything and start youtubing what it could be. Water in the fuel, I only run non ethanol gas since I got the boat, but a gas station around us I heard was having a problem keeping gas from getting water. Long story short, pumped out 10 gallons of water soaked gas out of the tank. Every gallon I would check it, and there was 2"s of water sitting below the gas. I put seafoam in the tank, when I get home from this trip I will fill it back up and get after it.
Hope all is well in TN,
Pal
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Wonder why the alarm went off. Is it a 4 stroke? That could be game over for some of the big 2 strokes.
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Dang, that is not good! Glad you made it in and figured out the issue.
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Be sure to empty the water fuel separator...
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The 2021 vmax has a alarm on the filter. I bought a new fuel water separator that I drain periodically without taking off. Next endeavor is to buy a new polling platform. The one I had fabricated turned out like junk. Dude was not good to work with, time to move on.
Cheers to Labor Day,
Pal