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Old Jun 7, 2007 | 07:53 PM
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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?
Old Jun 7, 2007 | 08:05 PM
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drain the tank and clean the bowl out on the carb to get all the water out before that ---- rusts.
Old Jun 7, 2007 | 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by burkej62
---- that throw in a few bottles of dry gas
that's kinda what i was thinking
Old Jun 7, 2007 | 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by rawr
drain the tank and clean the bowl out on the carb to get all the water out before that ---- rusts.
x2 you probably got trash in it when it went dry..
Old Jun 7, 2007 | 09:01 PM
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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
Old Jun 7, 2007 | 09:14 PM
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oh my bad it's actually a 4 stroke
Old Jun 7, 2007 | 09:18 PM
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turbo blue ftw!
Old Jun 7, 2007 | 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by burkej62
Dry gas FTW .
dry gas isn't going to take ---- out of the float bowl.
Old Jun 7, 2007 | 09:55 PM
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all the pontoon boats around here are old and you have to premix.
Old Jun 7, 2007 | 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by burkej62
There ain't floats on a fuel injected motor :P
how many people on HMT can afford newer fuel injected boats



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