5411's unusual stopping mech
Last season I had a yard do the commisioning work, first I tumbled to the fact that when they had bled the engine they had not firmly re-attached the line to the injector. (the 5411 started and amazingly ran on one cylinder, but had no torque) On returning from outing number one I could not shut the engine down as I always had, by moving the throttle to the 'detente' mentioned in the previous post. By the way, if you throttle back past the detente, the engine starts to rev up again. Reading the manual (which I have learned to keep on board) I discovered that I could stop the engine by releasing compression by the compression lever, which I found, and did, so it would not run until the tank was dry. I posted about this mess, and everyone agreed that relasing compression is a bad thing to do to the engine, and is reserved for emergencies. I had tried to stop up the air intake, but that didn't seem to work- engine did not quit and it looked like oil started to back up the fill pipe! The yard came out and fixed the problem by adjusting the linkage so that the engine starved when the throttle was in the detente position, as it is supposed to do. I like the tough 5411, but I do wish it came with an electric fuel pump cut-off switch like several other boats I have been on. But so far, that little engine is the Little Engine that Could (can) for my C27. Roger C27 #5012 Cape Cod
