Boat dies when i put in gear

A great lesson learned and shared.

I've been wondering, way to go checking and fixing your boat!

Thanks for getting back to us!

Hi again! I have good news....but please don't judge. i was in touch with Nautique Hunter and he said he would take a look at my boat (great guy!). We talked for quite a while on the phone. (He is a wealth of information) So before I bothered him...I rechecked my FO and for some reason the 3 and the 4 were switched (don't judge). We did a lake test after work and she ran like a dream! Long story short...the FO on the tag was completely correct...just had to take everyone's advise and find TDC and get the FO right (cant even believe i am talking like this??)
But thank you to everyone for suggestions and offers of help in person. You all are invaluable and so is this site. Lisa

spiralhelix wrote: I really hope the fellas can get your sorted out in person. Reading through this post and travels to the lake to test, I would encourage you to read this thread to install the Timmy T and/or also another thread on running the boat off a bucket. This can save you lots of time troubleshooting without multiple trips to the lake. Before you know it, you will be wrenching with the best of them and will know your boat inside and out

Problem is the boat won't run under "Load". Cant really simulate that with a bucket or flush kit. I'm running into the same issue. Need the boat in the water..

I really hope the fellas can get your sorted out in person.

Reading through this post and travels to the lake to test, I would encourage you to read this thread to install the Timmy T and/or also another thread on running the boat off a bucket. This can save you lots of time troubleshooting without multiple trips to the lake. Before you know it, you will be wrenching with the best of them and will know your boat inside and out

Lisa

You have a PM with Nautiquehunter's phone number if you want to call him

PM sent Lisa.

Gary S wrote: Well if she or her friend were named Kim..........

    Easy there fella!!!!

Don't give hope Lisa you're a trooper for trying to get the boat running again. I would assume that since you're in Marietta you probably take the boat to Alatoona. There are several of us CCFans that get together on Lake Lanier and we'll be happy to help, figure and hopefully fix the issue for you if you can drag the boat over to Lanier this weekend as the gang will be getting together.

Well if she or her friend were named Kim..........

KENO wrote: Lisa Back in the second post of this thread NautiqueHunter asked what state you live in, probably because Google says he's about an hour away from you on Lake Lanier. .

I think we should put the call out to anyone close to Marietta who could help Lisa with her timing and firing order. Anyone???

Lisa,
You're not being a pest at al! You do need to go back to this post Ken made regarding the firing order.

KENO wrote: Good job with the picture Lisa. Your tag has a firing order of 1 8 4 5 6 2 7 3 (later 302) but you have the order arranged to be 1 8 7 3 6 2 4 5 (early 302) You'll notice some clown named KenO did a little experiment the other day and took his engine with the late firing order and rearranged the wires to see how it ran. His results were that the engine would idle a little rough and a little slow but sound pretty good actually. But when it was given any gas after shifting into gear it stalled. This probably sounds familiar to you You said it didn't run with the later firing order as shown on the tag. I'm not sure why it didn't , but i'd either try that order again. (thats 1 8 4 5 6 2 7 3} or another option would be to pull the plugs and put a little piece of rag over each plug hole, then rotate the engine by hand in the correct rotation direction and see what order the little pieces get blown out of the plug holes. You have to start with #1 at Top Dead Center on the compression stroke.You can find that with a rag over the plug hole By the time you get to the 3rd plug hole you'll know which firing order you have. First rag to blow out will be #1 when you find TDC on the compression stroke Second will be #8 And then it'll be either #4 if you have the later order like your tag says...... or if #7 is next instead of #4 then you have the early firing order which is the way you have it now. You only really need a rag over the #1 8 4 and 7 holes to figure out the order but if you take all the plugs out, it'll rotate easier by hand. You can rotate it with a 15/16 socket on the front crankshaft bolt that holds the harmonic balancer on.. Cylinder numbering is Front of engine    5                  1    6                  2    7                  3    8                  4 and you want to rotate the engine counterclockwise if you're looking from the FRONT, Or in other words rotate it toward the drivers side of the boat You might have to read this a few times to digest it, but it'll tell you your firing order

You can rotate the distributor back and forth all day and you only change the timing, not the firing order. You need to get it timed properly. That would be a start.

I think you being a little hard on the mechanic there Pete,can't make a living working on obsolete equipment. The complaint you should have is that the guy took on the job thinking he knew more about something that is most likely as old as himself   
Does not mean he's a bad mechanic. I can still take a finger wheel off a rotary phone but that won't put food on the table- get to the ISP stuff I'd be lost,but at least I'd tell you that.

So cool that you figured it out yourself.
Your mechanic should sell his tools & look for a new occupation.