Help! Smoke on the Water!
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Hey all!
Hope everyone is enjoying burning some gas this summer! So I was putting my boat in on a dark night last weekend. It was dark, and still have some debris on Cumberland so I was running prob about 1500 RPM for about 15 min through the through hall exhaust. When I got to my slip and stopped with the boat still idling I noticed an alarming amount of smoke bellowing from the exhaust. It was pretty dark but it seemed to be a lighter color smoke and not typical with a motor that was loading up on fuel. I gave it some RPM to try to clear it out which might have helped a it but it was still smoking. I checked all my gauges and all was well so I shut her down for the night. The next morn it started perfectly and I did a visual inspection and saw nothing out of the ordinary. I put it on plane and it ran like a champ all day with no issues at all. Its a 95 525SC with a fresh top end (55 hours). So can anyone chime in on this? It seems the motor is a unhappy as I am without the hammer down. Thanks in advance!
Hope everyone is enjoying burning some gas this summer! So I was putting my boat in on a dark night last weekend. It was dark, and still have some debris on Cumberland so I was running prob about 1500 RPM for about 15 min through the through hall exhaust. When I got to my slip and stopped with the boat still idling I noticed an alarming amount of smoke bellowing from the exhaust. It was pretty dark but it seemed to be a lighter color smoke and not typical with a motor that was loading up on fuel. I gave it some RPM to try to clear it out which might have helped a it but it was still smoking. I checked all my gauges and all was well so I shut her down for the night. The next morn it started perfectly and I did a visual inspection and saw nothing out of the ordinary. I put it on plane and it ran like a champ all day with no issues at all. Its a 95 525SC with a fresh top end (55 hours). So can anyone chime in on this? It seems the motor is a unhappy as I am without the hammer down. Thanks in advance!




