tigertail34

update:

external fuel tank with new fuel and it starts up similar to previously.
when it came on had an alarm for low oil.
i have an engine mounted oil tank with an override switch. The oil was right at/below low line, but the override switch does not work to fill it. I added some oil manually and got the warnings/alarm to stop.

I know the mechanic noticed a part on a small linkage to the oil injection pump was broken and he repaired that. No clue how long that has been broken.

So now i'm leaning to some issue with the oil system???

I can keep engine idling as long as i keep pushing key/choke in

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Engines that wont accept load usually have a fuel problem

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Is this something that most outboard mechanics would be able to determine?

My guy cleaned the carbs and has now basically said he can't do anything else to help me. It runs five when its at his shop...my problem that it wont run in the water?

Have a 2003 yamaha 115 2 stroke

the last two years it has only been run 1-2 times each summer, but all i had to do was put a new battery in and it would crank right up and run fine. I put 93 octane fuel in it and a can of seafoam 2 years ago.

Jump to this summer and same thing as always...new battery and it would crank right up. Brought it to the lake to run and whenever I would give it some throttle it would just bog down and die.

Brought it to local outboard mechanic in Mandeville and he cleaned the carbs and had it running great out of water, went and put in in the water and the same thing. No idle and it just bogs down and dies. I was able to keep it alive by pushing the key(choke) but that was it.

Called the mechanic, he looked and ran it out of water and once again, no problems except would stall out on idle(not new with this one) and that was as much as he would be able to help me.

So my son and I drained the fuel tank, put new non ethanol fuel in and an enzyme treatment last weekend. Boat ran in driveway, put in water and the same thing.

This weekend, we took off the fuel filter and it had a bunch of gunk in it. We bought a new one and got started in driveway and it sounded great...thought we had it!

Put in the lake a little while ago and could not even get it to stay on.

Any ideas on what the difference between on ears and in water could be?

We have a pee stream and nothing out of the ordinary???

In Mandeville area if anyone has mechanic recommendations

Thinking about the quick trip into Canada on Tuesday if we do it.

Other than passports would we need anything to take our rental car on a one day adventure?!

Thanks for the information!

We do not fly that often and when we do its always a direct flight and typically southwest!

I would prefer not to pay extra for seats and assume that we will be towards the back, but willing to pay if we have to help make the connection.

Hoping we can at least get 2 seats next to each other for my wife and youngest son.

Family of 5: 45/45/19/16/12

My main concern is the layover times. Main two options we are looking at have layovers in Dallas(American) or Denver(United) and are each 1:05

Are either of these doable?

We will probably be towards the back of the arriving plane

Would mid-end July be a better time to go?

We looked at Denver but that's only a 50 minute window!

We like leaving early so there are not a ton of choices.

We have been to the campus one time but never ventured out. My wife and I will have 2 days to go explore while he is occupied. Is there anything that we can go do in the area or towards Shreveport/Monroe areas.

Any good places to take him to go eat - will be a Wednesday - Friday

My wife and I currently run a few small businesses from our kitchen table as well as on different jobsites/properties.

We both use laptops and phones to conduct business.

We were using a google drive to share between computers and such but recently reached the storage capacity of my laptop with and was not able to store anymore on the google drive?

We also have 3 kids who are are on gaming systems/streaming as well as all of our viewing is through streaming services.

We would like to be able to share our files and have access to one location with folders from any location, so looking into the best route to help make this work.

I would also like to backup all of our info/data since it is both impotant business documents and personal photos/files wewould hate to lose.