Boats do this to you............

Deep,

Yeah. I’m well aware.

B-ring
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I've been boating awhile. And I used to help my dad wrench on our boat when I was a kid.

I did find some on eBay. Gonna try and find one locally, or hopefully someone here on OSO will have one.

Thanks. Brad.
(937)545-8991

Supposedly one in ny. Give’m a jingle
https://www.ebay.com/itm/261528022599

SB,

Yup. Found that. Probably gonna pull the trigger on it. I'm thinking about pulling all the injectors and sending them to Smitty, since the boat is down for a week anyway. Just take them out of the equation. I'm gonna call around some of the local shops first and see what I can find.

Thanks. Brad.
(937)545-8991

SB,

Local marine services shop ordered one from Merc. Can't complain about new OEM parts.

Injectors are coming out and headed to Smitty. Might as well just eliminate them as a possibility, rather than run empirical tests at this point. Won't cost me hardly any additional time. And it CAN'T hurt to have nice, freshly cleaned and flowed injectors, right?

Thanks. Brad.
(937)545-8991

Pretty much a no-brainer there. Good peace of mind.

Won’t hurt at all.

Oh, put’m in marked single bags (and tell dmitty you are doing so) since you have cyl firing issues.

SB,

Yup. Did that. Smitty and I discussed all of this before I even started swapping the injectors. I'm a small machine shop, so I have several sizes of "Write-On" ziplock bags on hand. I numbered them before they went into the boat (no Sharpies allowed on board), and they went into the bags one-by-one as they came out. He's going to flow them before cleaning them for the academics of it. They are going to be on his doorstep tomorrow afternoon.

Nothing like a little bit of serendipity. As it happens, apparently, I'd shredded the upper O-ring of one of the injectors I was swapping but hadn't noticed it until I pulled it back out along with the rest of them. That would have been a major raw fuel leak. That cracked coolant reservoir truly saved my ass. And, yes, I told Smitty about it so he wouldn't mistake it for having been a contributing factor leading to all of this. He also gave up his trade secret for installing them (Hint: it starts with "Vas" and ends in "eline":silenced:).

My hope is that this will get me my (presumably) two cylinders back, along with the lost RPM and planing HP in this injector refresh process. If Smitty can pinpoint a faulty injector or two in the process, that'll just be validation.

I'm not sure what to do next if this doesn't cure the issue, though. Probably bug you guys some more. :kiss:

Thanks. Brad.
(937)545-8991

Silicone gease works even better but harder to find