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Originally Posted by staylor
..no need to bleed off pressure since there is no accumulator in the lines- as you would find on auto fuel filters nowadays. Just have a few rags handy since you'll probably spill some gas while working the filter out. If you have the spin on type filter- like I have on my 2002 Opti 150- then it would be good to have a new filter handy- since sometimes you mess them up getting them off.
Doug
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Thank You Doug,
I thought I'd update this thread, it suddenly hit me when I was removing my lower cowling to prepare for my plug replacement (who the *&^! decided it was a good idea to put the bolts on the inside of the cowling instead of the outside!) when I realized that when we ran the boat at the dealership before I bought it, we had it hooked up to an external gas tank as the boats onboard gas tank was dry. After running the motor the tech reconnected the gas line to the on board tank, which I then forgot about as I parked it in my shed for the next 3 months. I then realized that I filled the tank when I took the boat out for the first time, and that I may not have primed the bulb enough since it was a completely dry tank and lines, so I checked the bulb as I was standing there thinking about all of this. It turns out that the bulb wasn't completely hard, and it probably took 10 pumps to get solid and stay solid, so I'm guessing I may have just not primed the system enough the first time.
I'm going to replace the plugs anyway since the motor has 120 hours on it and 100 of them are at or near idle, and I would guess they're original anyway. I'll take it out this weekend with new plugs and see if the new plugs/proper bulb priming fixes the WOT cutting out issue.