The Never Ending story....

[rockfisherman]

Should you run your outboard dry?

The question on everybody's lips... Well here's my answer...

I do belive there are benefits associated with running your motor dry AND leaving fuel in the outboard, and that's why when my wife's cousin who's a mechanic suggested the following, I thought to myself, that sounds like a brilliant idea.

So here it goes...he suggested I remove the feul line and time how long it actually takes for the motor to run dry which in my case, a 15hp outboard is 2.5 minutes on idle, so once I disconnect my feul line I time it between 1.5-2 minutes then press the stop button.

So here we are with a solution that lays somewhere in the middle, and which i think as a holder of 2 trades has plausible reasoning to be the third answer to this 2 answer question.

Fishingphase

Edited April 27, 2012 by fishingphase

[dunc333]

i like it nice work lol dunc333

[Plumb]

Shouldn't we all just use our boats once a week;)

Oh that's right I have a

Wife

Kids

House

Job

Mother in law ect

[bisso]

Should you run your outboard dry?

The question on everybody's lips... Well here's my answer...

I do belive there are benefits associated with running your motor dry AND leaving fuel in the outboard, and that's why when my wife's cousin who's a mechanic suggested the following, I thought to myself, that sounds like a brilliant idea.

So here it goes...he suggested I remove the feul line and time how long it actually takes for the motor to run dry which in my case, a 15hp outboard is 2.5 minutes on idle, so once I disconnect my feul line I time it between 1.5-2 minutes then press the stop button.

So here we are with a solution that lays somewhere in the middle, and which i think as a holder of 2 trades has plausible reasoning to be the third answer to this 2 answer question.

Fishingphase

Thats how i have always done it and never had any problems. i dont like running them dry!!! once you remove the fuel line it is usually sealed so no air should get in over a shortish timeframe to cause gumming... alternatively, start your engine on muffs once a month!!