250 HO running on 5 cyclinders

[Igore67]

Hello to all, I'm new to this forum and would like to say that I have been very impressed with the wealth of knowledge here.
I recently bought my first bass boat, moving from an aluminum with a small Yamaha. This Thursday I took it to the lake for the first outing. I had 20 gallons of fuel in the tanks and maybe about 150lbs of gear at the most in the front lockers. After idling out past the no wake buoy I pushed the Hot foot to the floor and slowly climbed onto plane. I ran the boat for about 30-45mins not going over 4000 rpm. Filled the live well and it barely got onto plain. At this point I though it was propped wrong. The next day I returned with 40 gals in the tanks at it would not plane at all. Checked the prop and it is a 24" Raker. Returned home, pulled the motor cowl and discovered that I only had 5 (ignition modules?). Plug wire was dangling. I have contacted the dealer this weekend, expect a response Monday. My question is, is there any possible motor damage from running on 5 cylinders?


Modified by Igore67 at 10:58 PM 7/5/2009

[ChampioNman]

Don't believe you incurred any damage, from your avatar it looks like your are running an E-tec but a model and serial # would help in diagnosing and searching on service history for your motor. Yep re-attach the plug wire and run it and see how it performs. Plug wires sometimes get hung up in the motor cowl latches and get pulled off or a Tech may have been distracted on plug installation and left the wire off. Let us know how it does. Welcome to the Forums!!

[Igore67]

Thanks ChampioNman
The motor is an E250HGLSEF with Ser# 05257595.
The motor is actually missing an ignition module for that cylinder. Guess the tech robbed it for another motor and forgot to replace it.

[ChampioNman]

Don't run it untill it has been replaced and you have properly kicked his azz for stealing parts off your motor.

[Igore67]

Picked up the module from the dealer and installed it myself. Took her out to the lake this afternoon and she runs like a top.

[torew]

Lack of ignition does not affect the motor. Lack of fuel, on the other hand.....

[DoferGofer]

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I would really love to hear the lame brain reason for the missing module.

Regards,

Melvin

[Garfish]

I'd love to hear it too.................

[Igore67]

Really didn't get a reason. Got a "Sorry". That's it. I know they were busy, but it really ruined my July 4th weekend. The wife was more upset than I was.
A. "You spent a lot on a boat"
B. "You spent a lot on a boat, that wouldn't run"
Guess I may look elsewhere for service in the future, but we don't have very many options in our neighborhood around here.

[ELGIN]

I would guess that a tech needed a coil and that was the engine he borrowed it from.....Now there is a reasonable guess that the guy that started the motor when it was being prepared for delivery should have caught this but it would appear that did not happen.

[ChampioNman]

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Could I hear the explanation for this?

[Igore67]