Right filter.
We started the engine like we have been doing each month. We start the 38hp Beta and let it idle for about 10 minutes then put it in forward at about 10,000 rpms and let it run for another 20 min.This time it ran for a few minutes and shut off.
We tried bleeding the fuel filter and then the pump. We saw what looked like water coming out.
We tried this twice after switching to the left filter. No luck starting the engine.
We think we should drain some fuel from the fuel tank by the filter fuel hose.
Then examine the fuel for quality.
Then remove the bowl’s and filters from the Racors and clean and replace the filters.
Then remove the fuel filter. Then bleed the fuel till clean fuel comes out of where the fuel filter sits using the hand fuel pump. Will that work?
Then backfill a new fuel filter with good fuel of course and then bleed the injector pump.
Then try to start it?
After taking the pictures of the Racor filters and looking at them, well I am ashamed to say they look bad. These filters we were going to remove the bowls and clean them next month before we start heading down the Mexican Rivera in November. We have had no problems so far and I never thought to look real close at them before starting the engine. They look like something is growing in them!
We have an 80-gallon fuel tank which is full.
Dang, those filters look dirty!
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