I have been dealing with a very strange problem. A friend bought a used
Morgan 32. Another friend and I were delivering it for him. The
engine started easily and ran great for about 3 hours. Then it quite. The
fuel filter bowel was empty. We ended up feeding
diesel to the
engine by hand one bottle at a time.
We filled the tank with fresh
diesel and ran with the cap off in case it was a blocked vent. Again the
boat ran a couple of hours without a problem and then died from
fuel starvation. Back to the the bottles and hand feeding the engine.
Later we had the
boat on the hard. We polished the
fuel. We observed no contamination in the clear lines or the filter. We checked the bottom of the
fuel tank the best we could and found no obvious contamination. We had the fuel line replaced. Back on the
water we ran great for over 5 hours. Then the engine died. We fed it one more bottle at the filter to get to the slip. Has anyone experienced anything like this? Any thoughts? We're baffled and the guys at the marina are scratching their heads.