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After some more investigation this morning, I had the idea come across me to use a can of compressed air and see if I could dry the cylinder up for better viewing of the “pits”. Turns out the “pits” moved around when I hit them with the air. They are indeed water/oil droplets. Now that my blood...
I will when I get into it again, those droplet looking parts of the photo are actually pits in the cylinder wall. I’m not even sure if it’ll last a few hours, and I have no idea how it produced 120psi. When I did go into the upper cylinder. It looked clean and perfect as a cylinder should.
Hello all, I have recently bought a 2000 Johnson 50 (2 stroke 2 cylinder). It has great compression, reading 120psi on both cylinders upper and lower, and has ran great on a stand. I haven’t seen it on a boat. Upon tearing down the engine more to bring it up to par for the season (just odds and...
