11-06-2009, 08:44 PM
Another thing that I learned was when you take a boat from our elevation down to sea level (or in my case 400 ft. above sea level) the motors performance increases 23%.
So basically my motor was running like a champ. But the change in elevation also caused the motor to diesel when I shut it off. Around the local ponds it shutoff without any problems. So the idle was too high for the lower elevation and I should have slowed the idle down.
The strange thing was it's done this same routine every year for the past 8 trips to Oregon. This trip was no different expect for the last time.
Again Knowledge is power and I hope this will help some other poor sole avoid this costly learning adventure...
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So basically my motor was running like a champ. But the change in elevation also caused the motor to diesel when I shut it off. Around the local ponds it shutoff without any problems. So the idle was too high for the lower elevation and I should have slowed the idle down.
The strange thing was it's done this same routine every year for the past 8 trips to Oregon. This trip was no different expect for the last time.
Again Knowledge is power and I hope this will help some other poor sole avoid this costly learning adventure...
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