Hello all -
I'm crossposting from Another Forum...but I'm hoping one of you can help....
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I've searched all over, found and followed a bunch of advice on bleeding, but still can't start, and I want to focus on next steps before running down my battery.
Let's set the scene:
1990 Catalina 30 is new to me. Delivered her this weekend from Cape Cod to Maine. Motored hours and hours and hours: no problem (sailed when we could...really!)
Left Sunday morning about 9:30....lots of motoring. Make it all the way to the marina we were shooting for at about 3am. A hundred meters from the dock, the motor bogs down, eventually dies. It starts back up for a few turns of the prop.
We eventually spin ourselves around with momentum and the current so I can leap to the dock with a line and pull her in. (at some point in there I dump in 2 fresh gallons of diesel...friend thought we might be out of fuel.)
I start working the problem immediately. The previous owner kindly left aboard a box of fuel filters, oil filters, filter wrenches, and changing supplies. I changed the Racor and the secondary fuel filter.
No start. Ok, bleed. To the internet! Read many threads. Opened the knurled nut. Bubbles appear. I didn't have a 14mm socket, and I can't fit a wrench in there to bleed the secondary filter. I check the Racor - there's fuel in the bowl. I carefully drop the secondary filter...it's almost full of fuel, but not full. I get a ride home to gather tools and come back to attack again.
I crack the secondary filter's nut. Bubbles, eventually what I think is a drip. Still no start. I read a GREAT tip about turning the fuel pump on and off (the master ON/OFF switch right across from the motor..genius). I cover the area in soak pads, then open each bleeder in order. Looks like full fuel flow...pretty much a gusher. Cleanup was fun.
I tried cranking again. No start.
I will note that occasionally the motor seem like it wants to start..coughs, strong smell of exhaust...
So that's where I'm at. Boat tied to a face dock of not-my-marina, motor not starting...I need to get it off of there and to my club mooring.
Most things I read indicate you don't need to bleed at the injectors....as long as you are bleeding the knurl nut.
What do you think?
Thanks!
I'm crossposting from Another Forum...but I'm hoping one of you can help....
-------
I've searched all over, found and followed a bunch of advice on bleeding, but still can't start, and I want to focus on next steps before running down my battery.
Let's set the scene:
1990 Catalina 30 is new to me. Delivered her this weekend from Cape Cod to Maine. Motored hours and hours and hours: no problem (sailed when we could...really!)
Left Sunday morning about 9:30....lots of motoring. Make it all the way to the marina we were shooting for at about 3am. A hundred meters from the dock, the motor bogs down, eventually dies. It starts back up for a few turns of the prop.
We eventually spin ourselves around with momentum and the current so I can leap to the dock with a line and pull her in. (at some point in there I dump in 2 fresh gallons of diesel...friend thought we might be out of fuel.)
I start working the problem immediately. The previous owner kindly left aboard a box of fuel filters, oil filters, filter wrenches, and changing supplies. I changed the Racor and the secondary fuel filter.
No start. Ok, bleed. To the internet! Read many threads. Opened the knurled nut. Bubbles appear. I didn't have a 14mm socket, and I can't fit a wrench in there to bleed the secondary filter. I check the Racor - there's fuel in the bowl. I carefully drop the secondary filter...it's almost full of fuel, but not full. I get a ride home to gather tools and come back to attack again.
I crack the secondary filter's nut. Bubbles, eventually what I think is a drip. Still no start. I read a GREAT tip about turning the fuel pump on and off (the master ON/OFF switch right across from the motor..genius). I cover the area in soak pads, then open each bleeder in order. Looks like full fuel flow...pretty much a gusher. Cleanup was fun.
I tried cranking again. No start.
I will note that occasionally the motor seem like it wants to start..coughs, strong smell of exhaust...
So that's where I'm at. Boat tied to a face dock of not-my-marina, motor not starting...I need to get it off of there and to my club mooring.
Most things I read indicate you don't need to bleed at the injectors....as long as you are bleeding the knurl nut.
What do you think?
Thanks!