New Yamaha, buzzer went off today ...

[Life in The Bass Lane]

Hello to everyone,

I was on the lake this morning still under break in rules and I started to run and slowly started accelarating and trimming up. I reached about 5000 rpm's and a warning buzzer went off. Right before it went off a saw my water pressure gauge suddenly drop. Oil level was fine, right between the two lines on the tank. Wasn't overheating (whats the normal temp anyway, curious?). When I got home and checked the manual and said could be a number of things, oil level, uneven ditribution on the boat (weird), water in fuel. Any help for me ? Thanks !

[JeremyL]

Did the water pressure drop and stay down??? IF so then thats your problem, also did you check the oil tank on the motor???

[Life in The Bass Lane]

when i slow down and restart the water pressure gauge works as normal

[Sigma]

You reached 5000 just taking off during break in? Was the prop slipping at that rpm? How fast were you goin at 5000 rpm? Were you possibly trimming way to high to fast and got a quick over heat due to this?

[55excl]

Sounds to me you picked up a plastic bag on your water intake. Check on motor fuel filter to see if you have water in it. Enrico

[Life in The Bass Lane]

i see that filter has a zip tie holding it ...i can just cut that off empty the filter and re tie with a zip tie correct ?

[Sigma]

Are you talking about the inch long tube on the left side of the motor with oil in it?

IM sent with phone # feel free to call me if it would be easyer to do some basic trouble shooting over the phone.

[55excl]

There is filter with a red ring if ring is off bottom water in filter unsrew and emty. Enrico