Boat problem
 

So last weekend i was out drinking with some buddies on my pontoon. As luck would have it, we ran out of gas when we were almost at my house. Considering we were shitfaced, we figured it would be a good idea to throw some moonshine in the gas tank to limp us home, and surprisingly, it worked. Now i filled the tank and it runs fine, but it misses a little while it's idling and then will stall out. Not that it ever idled great in the first place, but i'm assuming the alcohol fucked with the octane rating or there's possibly some water in there. Other than idle it runs fine. You guys have any ideas for additives i should add to it to bring it back to life?

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drain the tank and clean the bowl out on the carb to get all the water out before that ---- rusts.

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that's kinda what i was thinking

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x2 you probably got trash in it when it went dry..

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did you mix oil in the moonshine? if not i bet you have a compression problem now. bad compression will run great, but have a bad idle in a lot of cases

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oh my bad it's actually a 4 stroke

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turbo blue ftw!

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dry gas isn't going to take ---- out of the float bowl.

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all the pontoon boats around here are old and you have to premix.

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how many people on HMT can afford newer fuel injected boats :)

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he says its 4 stroke, not a 4 tech. 4tech = bombardier gayness. plastic everything ftl

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If throwing alcohol into the tank is what caused the problem, how is throwing more alcohol in the tank going to fix it?

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no ----, but 4 tec = bombardier

http://www.brp.com/NR/rdonlyres/AE5B...4Tec_Right.jpg

and why are you talking about it being fuel injected because its 4 stroke? and where did you talking about 4 tec even come from?

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What water?? Are you dense? Do you have any idea what a fuel dryer is and how it's supposed to work?

All of that aside, if there was any significant water in the 'shine, it wasn't good shine.

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If it was good shine would they be so willing to dump it in their tank for fuel? :3

I know a drunken me is much more protective of alcohol :P

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Quit quoting me out of context.

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So you aren't aware that fuel dryer is alcohol?

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Water goes into solution and burns equally well with isopropanol, methanol, ethanol. Which one comes in the brightly colored plastic bottle at a steep markup is a decision based on cost engineering and not picking which alcohol is "better"

It's trash from running the tank dry, get off the anti-shine kick.

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Yeah, but where's the fun in that???

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Clear the tanks, lines, etc & check/replace the plugs.

Same thing happened to us when we limped around on 1/2 diesel, 1/2 crystal springs (190proof)

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yeah i think that's what it's going to come down to. I mean the thing runs mint above 1500 rpm, but it just won't idle. And plus i'm thinking the shine sucked and probably had a little water in it. Or possibly lowered the octane rating? Cause alcohol is less volatile than gas right? Idk.

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dumped about 4 ounces of fuel stabilizer in it. Runs like a charm O0