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[bamber1967]

I've owned a 180se for two years now, but it has turned out to be a pain in the rear. I replaced my impeller last week after having it at a dealer several times trying to figure out why I was burning fuel like a tank (8 gallons per hour) and couldn't have more than 3 adults in the boat and cruise at more than 15 knots. I had the old impeller out twice, but it looked fine, just a little damage to the leading edge and a slight angle change on the trailing edge from a pebble. Filed it clean, pounded it back into shape and put it back in ...still no luck. I put a new OEM impeller in and it fixed the problem for exactly 2hrs. I picked up some weeds and bang....back to traveling at 10 knots and burning fuel like crazy. When I hit the throttle it just hyper revs without any velocity change??????NO visible damage to the impeller, but I haven't pulled it out yet (just looked in the intake and jet)

I've ordered a Solas 14/19 stainless impeller for it hoping it will solve the problem, but if anyone has any info on this I would love to hear from you. I'm ready to sell..cheap!

[Kevin Leclair]

We haven't had any issues with our impeller but the water we boat is in clean so we don't pick up any weeds etc. What are the water conditions like in the water you boat in?

[Kevin_Hedstrom]

Usually the wear ring around the impeller can get damaged and that causes problems, the impeller shouldnt need frequent replacing unless you are sucking in shells, rocks or other larger hard objects. My solas 14/19 works great, you will like it.

You never mentioned how your wear ring looks. It should be very very lightly worn. You can replace a wear ring without touching the impeller. I just changed mine after sucking in some shells from too much throttle in the shallows, the impeller looked fine.

Dont do more than idle speeds in anything less than 4 or 5 feet of water to decrease the chances.
It seems kinda crazy that some weeds caused damage.

KH

I've owned a 180se for two years now, but it has turned out to be a pain in the rear. I replaced my impeller last week after having it at a dealer several times trying to figure out why I was burning fuel like a tank (8 gallons per hour) and couldn't have more than 3 adults in the boat and cruise at more than 15 knots. I had the old impeller out twice, but it looked fine, just a little damage to the leading edge and a slight angle change on the trailing edge from a pebble. Filed it clean, pounded it back into shape and put it back in ...still no luck. I put a new OEM impeller in and it fixed the problem for exactly 2hrs. I picked up some weeds and bang....back to traveling at 10 knots and burning fuel like crazy. When I hit the throttle it just hyper revs without any velocity change??????NO visible damage to the impeller, but I haven't pulled it out yet (just looked in the intake and jet)

I've ordered a Solas 14/19 stainless impeller for it hoping it will solve the problem, but if anyone has any info on this I would love to hear from you. I'm ready to sell..cheap!