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From what i can tell, the wngine was nade from 1974-1980 ish, most of them you can see the decompression lever in the valve cover. Mine does not have it. Is there such thing as auto decompression on these engines as i read on another forum i found online?
I read somewhere tgat some of the MDs that didnt have tge manual levers for decompression that there was some type of centrificle devise on the cam system that its on decompression mide until you get tge rpm s up. It has a large heavy flywheel and are made so you can hand crank to start if your...
Yes a small 23hp twin cylinder volvo Penta. I have it apart with the exhaust manifold off. Being its raw water cooled all the water jackets are really blocked up with black crap. Trying to figure out how and what to use to clean the water jackets out.
There is no external levers for decompression so my question is because i can spin tge engine over by hand fairly easy, it it an automatic decompression set up until tge engine gets spinning faster or starts? Thanks for any input.
