Good Morning to all!!!
Have an issue here I was hoping I could get some insight on. The wife and I have recently picked up 1987 3255 Bayliner Avanti and discovered that there is a rather long delay in reaction time from the engines when put into gear and throttled up or down.
The boat was delivered to us at Ditto Landing here in Huntsville around 4 AM a week or two ago. Got the boat into the water, started up, ran for around 15-20 minutes then we prepped to move it over to our slip. I can tell the throttle rigging is off on the port engine due to the fact that it continued to die once I pulled the throttled back into the neutral zone. Was able to back it up slowly with starboard engine only but I then discovered that once its put into drive, the engine will sputter and died a couple of times. Once I did get it started again and successfully put it into drive, I literally had the shift/ fuel lever full forward before the engine seemed to realize it was being engaged to go forward, at which time it lunged forward due to the build up and heavy influx of fuel.
I was sure to take my time in shifting gears and throttling forward so as to give everything time to react but after the second or third time this thing lunged forward on us we decided to stop where we were and tie it off. There were too many other boats in the vicinity that were moored/ docked and I didnt care to risk damaging anybody else's vessel.
After talking to the gents at the marina the next day we all had a sneaking suspicion that the shift/ fuel cables are out of Rig but I cant seem to find any documentation on rigging the shift and fuel control cables on the engine. Best I can tell from looking at the head control is that its a Teleflex Morse type control with both transmission and fuel encompassed by the one control. Im not distinctly familiar with these types of controls so I figured Id get on here and engage the brain trust and see if there is anything in particular I can do to verify what may be causing these delays and lunges.
As for the port engine, I will disconnect the fuel control cable and extend it out a few threads to see if that will cause the sputtering and dying to stop once the engine is brought back down to an idle speed.
Thanks in the mean time.
JJ
Have an issue here I was hoping I could get some insight on. The wife and I have recently picked up 1987 3255 Bayliner Avanti and discovered that there is a rather long delay in reaction time from the engines when put into gear and throttled up or down.
The boat was delivered to us at Ditto Landing here in Huntsville around 4 AM a week or two ago. Got the boat into the water, started up, ran for around 15-20 minutes then we prepped to move it over to our slip. I can tell the throttle rigging is off on the port engine due to the fact that it continued to die once I pulled the throttled back into the neutral zone. Was able to back it up slowly with starboard engine only but I then discovered that once its put into drive, the engine will sputter and died a couple of times. Once I did get it started again and successfully put it into drive, I literally had the shift/ fuel lever full forward before the engine seemed to realize it was being engaged to go forward, at which time it lunged forward due to the build up and heavy influx of fuel.
I was sure to take my time in shifting gears and throttling forward so as to give everything time to react but after the second or third time this thing lunged forward on us we decided to stop where we were and tie it off. There were too many other boats in the vicinity that were moored/ docked and I didnt care to risk damaging anybody else's vessel.
After talking to the gents at the marina the next day we all had a sneaking suspicion that the shift/ fuel cables are out of Rig but I cant seem to find any documentation on rigging the shift and fuel control cables on the engine. Best I can tell from looking at the head control is that its a Teleflex Morse type control with both transmission and fuel encompassed by the one control. Im not distinctly familiar with these types of controls so I figured Id get on here and engage the brain trust and see if there is anything in particular I can do to verify what may be causing these delays and lunges.
As for the port engine, I will disconnect the fuel control cable and extend it out a few threads to see if that will cause the sputtering and dying to stop once the engine is brought back down to an idle speed.
Thanks in the mean time.
JJ
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