Recent content by 58 chris craft comet

I don't like your theory about a seized bearing, sounds terminal. On that note there is another issue I noticed, there is a short lever attached under the flywheel and also to the throttle arm where the carb linkage attaches. This does seem to be frozen. When they are connected, the throttle...

I know my batteries are good and fully charged, I'm using 2 RV batteries in parallel. As for the health of the starter? It cranks the motor over fast with plugs out but can barely move it with them in. I can barely move with rope start in both cases. Tom

FR: Yes crankcase. If fluid got into the crankcase would it cause enough compression with plugs in to make it hard to turn over yet when the plugs are removed allow it to turn over easily??? If this is so, how would I remove fluid from crankcase? I did notice fluid draining out of lower unit but...

Sorry for late reply, to many irons in the fire. Motor is extremely hard to crank with either starter motor or hand crank until you pull the plugs, then it turns over very easily. There can't be any fluid in cylinders since when I crank it over with the starter motor, plugs removed, everything...

Thanks for the speedy reply. Me being a complete noob, what and where is the compression relief valve, and can I by pass it and still run. Tom

Brand new to this forum and brand new to 2 strokes.. My issue with my big twin is that there seems to be to much compression, if that's even possible. This motor sat for at least 30 yrs. on the side of my garage, covered, carb drained, cylinders fogged with 2 stroke oil and occasionally turned...