1999 Sport Nautique with GT-40
- Jeff Carroll
- 2 days ago
- 1 min read
Sort the comments below by OLDEST to see a chronological timeline of the work we have completed so far.
A client from Pennsylvania brought this vessel to us in hopes that we could figure out a miss that was occurring in his engine. Another shop had done extensive work on the engine after an unfortunate electrical issue, but the engine still isn't running quite right. We'll do our best to track down the issue, and fix a few other little things along the way.
We ran this boat on the hose today, and tested all of the normal suspects for engine miss on a GT-40. We found that the timing was SEVERELY out-of-spec. Often, people not used to working on a GT-40 forget (or don't know) that you have to disconnect the spout plug (small connector near the distributor) in order to get a proper timing reading. Once the timing was set properly, it seemed to run much better on the hose, but the true test will come with a real lake test. Unfortunately it is raining today, and it is going to be quite cold and windy tomorrow. That means the water test will have to wait until next week, this Thursday …