Yesterday, I was motoring for about 50 minutes out of the Oakland estuary at max
RPM for my
engine, trying to find
wind on a hot, windless day. I hoisted the
sails and was idling/cooling down when the
engine just shut off. I was able to restart it again right after, but it sounded sluggish, so I shut it down the right way and didn't start it up again for another hour or so. It wasn't
fuel or an air bubble, engine temperatures seemed normal,
water was flowing well and the
exhaust elbow had recently been replaced. Later, I noticed that it seemed to be idling a little low (900 RPMs) and skipping a beat so I kept it at 1000 RPMs. Two questions...does a shutdown like this cause any problems and might this mean that the injectors need to be cleaned? I suppose there are all sorts of possibilities here, but my main concern actually is whether it might have done any damage. The manual says not shutting down properly can cause bad juju