Cobalt Boats Forum

Very good advice, I did notice some erratic tachometer movement, but just figured the gauge was acting up, definitely need to look more into the coil, it was reading about 4K sometimes when idling at a more like 500-700. And that’s good to know about the fuel pump, I thought that was just a cooler ...

Yeah at this point I’m thinking it could definitely be a heat related issue, the temp gauge reads correctly when the issue is happening, I also tried unplugging the coolant temp sensor while it was happening(thinking maybe it had a default it would go to when unplugged), and it made no difference ...

Thanks for the welcome, I have been here several times looking through the posts over the years, always loved cobalts ever since my parents bought a 1999 232 back in 2000, so when this near identical 1998 came up for sale I hopped on it, and it gave use about 7 years of trouble free fun. My ...

I’ve been running into a bit of an issue for the last 12 months, the boat usually runs fine, but lately more so than before, the boat will start up just fine, but bog or die when I try to take off, and barely run accompanied by some back firing, usually about 10-20 seconds of revving it up and down ...