Getting ready for the season and the steering is froze solid. The piston at the engine end of the steering cable is frozen solid. I mean REALLY frozen. Tried about everything except heat. Is it possible to heat the rod a bit away from the engine to maybe free it. I don't want heat near the...
Thanks to any that responded to my earlier ( week or so back ) about my '78 Evinrude power pack problems. I managed to get it running really great. Next problem!! I replaced the beat up 10.5x11 prop with a new Michigan 10.25x11. The customer service at Deep Blue Yacht Supp. said the slightly...
78 35HP Evinrude - No spark - Following the testing procedures in the Clymer manual and got as far as the charge coil output test. FAILED! Step 6 says "replace the charge coil" BUT it appears to me stator, charge coil, ac coils, etc. are molded together with the stator. I'm getting depressed...
Top cylinder no spark, bottom OK. Thought it was the coil. Unplugged the connection between the power pack and coils, inserted a lead into the plug going to the bad cylinder and hooked up a volt meter set on 100 volts. Hit the key and NADA. Switched to the good cylinder and the volt meter...
My "Clymer" shop manual specifies Champion QL77JC4 with a gap of .040. The Champion book, several other sources and a few experts I have talked to state .030. In fact all sources I can find BUT Clymer indicate .030 for virtually all smaller Evinrudes. Clymer indicates .040 for quite a few. Do...
Bro-In-Law gave me an OLD outboard he thinks is a 30s-40s Evinrude. The only ID on it is a small metal tag with two rows of numbers; 626 64 and 3658921
It's single cyl., air cooled. I have pictures if anyone is interested. It has good compression but no spark, probably the coil. It's probably...
