Last night on a delivery to get our Soverel 27 with a 1GM10 to Annapolis for the SMC Governor’s Cup the engine started acting up. When leaving North East the engine would only rev to 2700 not the typical 3000. We were cruising at 2500 about 20 nm into the trip without any other problems and just as we were crossing the shipping channel the engine just slowed down to about 1000 rpm even though the throttle had not been adjusted. After a few minutes of playing with the throttle it was running at 2500 rpms like nothing had happened. About 2hours later the same thing happened but this time it would not run over 1000 rpms.
After changing the fuel filter and checking the fuel hoses I ended up taking apart the Fuel Feed Pump Assembly and it turns out there is a little part (disk) that is held in place with two small screws. This piece holds what looks to be two one-way valves in place on the two of the pump assemble. One of the screws backed out and the disk broke ended up allowing the intake valve to fall out. We jury rigged it after about thirty five minutes but a new pump assembly has been ordered.
Part should be here Wednesday.
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