Got the Nissan / Tohatsu back from the second repair shop who called me to say come and get your motor. " I have checked out the fuel system the ignition and everything is right , I don't know what is wrong and I did not fix it. There is no bill on this one because I don't understand why it stops after running in gear at just less than half throttle. I have given up so take it to a Tohatsu repair shop."
I went on line and found three Nissan Tohatsu dealers under 75 miles from my zip code. First one is a place I had the alternator installed three years ago. Shop is filthy and the work was not done when I was told. Second was Cabela's in Michigan, and the third was a small place on the Maumee River in Grand Rapids Ohio. I called and told them my story and said I was loosing faith in the motor and need help. Instead of running in a tank he suggested we put it on a metal JON boat and run it in the river, but first lets take a look at the spark plug. Well it was in fact carbon ed up with the black soot. He went in and got a new plug and put it in. ( I also put a new plug in this spring at launch time ) so I never checked it nor did the other two repair shops. As you can bet,, The motor runs Super good and I believe it is now fixed..
This time I have cleaned the plastic tank, put 89 octane in, using Lucas gas stabilizer, put a rather large filter at the gas tank and a fresh filter inside the motor. The Nissan guy asked if I ran the motor with the fuel hose disconnected until the engine died. I said no but will now do it. Well he said you don't have to because we just talked about that during our last schooling and the conclusion was that by leaving the fuel in the carb, you chance not drying up the gaskets,, of course it
doesn't hurt. I will pull the fuel hose because so many now do with good success.
I'll keep posted if more issues occur.
I went on line and found three Nissan Tohatsu dealers under 75 miles from my zip code. First one is a place I had the alternator installed three years ago. Shop is filthy and the work was not done when I was told. Second was Cabela's in Michigan, and the third was a small place on the Maumee River in Grand Rapids Ohio. I called and told them my story and said I was loosing faith in the motor and need help. Instead of running in a tank he suggested we put it on a metal JON boat and run it in the river, but first lets take a look at the spark plug. Well it was in fact carbon ed up with the black soot. He went in and got a new plug and put it in. ( I also put a new plug in this spring at launch time ) so I never checked it nor did the other two repair shops. As you can bet,, The motor runs Super good and I believe it is now fixed..
This time I have cleaned the plastic tank, put 89 octane in, using Lucas gas stabilizer, put a rather large filter at the gas tank and a fresh filter inside the motor. The Nissan guy asked if I ran the motor with the fuel hose disconnected until the engine died. I said no but will now do it. Well he said you don't have to because we just talked about that during our last schooling and the conclusion was that by leaving the fuel in the carb, you chance not drying up the gaskets,, of course it
doesn't hurt. I will pull the fuel hose because so many now do with good success.
I'll keep posted if more issues occur.
