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    Boat age vs financing.

    interesting. I find myself working on boat projects thinking ahead already into use next year and beyond. nothing fancy, just want things set up to go. if I were you, I'd think a little about what you want to do and maybe read about options for how others do that. you may find some...
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    1973 4hp Evinrude

    picked up sealers to do the lower unit seals and water pump. Permatex 80062 High Tack Gasket Sealant Permatex 22071 Water Pump and Thermostat RTV Silicone Gasket this stuff should work fine, no? there may be better, but I'm not looking for perfect, just working. oh, there was no plate in...
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    1973 4hp Evinrude

    I think the touched up one should work OK. Funny, I was trying to figure out where to get another bolt for the exhaust plate, and that other motor is my answer.
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    1973 4hp Evinrude

    never did this before. had the tools from other projects, but never flatted a cylinder head before. it is about .025 in the very middle going corner to corner with a straight edge, and both ways, so - it warped with some symetry at least, so - warped a good bit. I have a 71 4hp parts motor...
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    1973 4hp Evinrude

    Pulled the head and exhaust cover, to look at the water passages. Looks like the head is just one big water channel. If I figured out the flow correctly, up from the pump through a passage on the left side in the middle of the cylinders, there's a passage at the top, that is drilled at the top...
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    1991 Johnson 8hp tiller shifting

    They live in a major summer boating lakes area. You can't take a step without tripping over an old outboard motor, or someone who sells parts, and they have a Napa Marine in the same town. I walked in there years ago and got a head gasket for a 1968 outboard, and it was on their shelf .. lol
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    1991 Johnson 8hp tiller shifting

    apparently, my brother ordered parts, my nephew and his cousin were shown how to take it apart, and apparently they'll put it back together. Not sure which parts, but he mentioned there were chunks of metal, and some of it was destroyed/broken, in need of service ... lol
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    How many of us have a GREEN Seahorse motor ?

    I still have an original cork float in a 68 3hp Evinrude. Seemed fine, so I just left it.
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    1995 Johnson 15hp

    What color is the spark from the plugs? If good that motor might be singing the sad song of bad gas. You want to look at the plugs after it won't start also, and see if they are wet or dry. wet = flooding, dry = no gas. If no gas you might want to go back and look at the carb again. Oh...
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    Stupid me, no oil

    real question is, why is it using that much oil?
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    1973 4hp Evinrude

    cracked that thing right off. pin was shape of an S with both ends crooked and mushroomed. that thing was never coming out, and well sometimes expedience matters. I think I probably didn't damage the shaft or housing or anything, probably. but, sometimes you have to be willing to break...
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    1973 4hp Evinrude

    I messed with that pin a bit and it is not worth the time as far as I can tell. I ordered a replacement, and plan to just squeeze it in a vice to crack it off. I pounded it with a hammer about has hard as I could and it laughed at me. It is particularly odd becuase I can hold the clutch hub...
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    1973 4hp Evinrude

    the lower unit was fully milk, so I think I'm looking at seals and such. my shopping list looks like this impeller kit - metal housing water tube gromet gearcase head o-ring gearcase head seal drive shaft o-ring and just some things I want to get, but not for lower unit carb kit head gasket...
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    1973 4hp Evinrude

    Service manual came today. It did not help me figure out how to get that drive pin out.
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    1973 4hp Evinrude

    Well, I'd like to think it ran better, but who knows. Still started hard, but it started, and seems like it would happily run wide open, but won't really idle down. Seemed to get real hot, and was not spitting water as well as it should be a bit, but definitely on the path to overheating. I...
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    1968 3hp Johnson

    ran this motor in a bucket again. seemed good. tried to set the high and low a bit, but hard in a plastic storage bin. there's no neutral, too fast and you just shoot all the water out ... but, it works. just let it run for a while, seems to pump water nicely, so - this one is in cue for a...
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    1968 3hp Johnson

    not much to adjust the depth of the coil, just loosened it and pushed it inward with my fingers and tightened it back down. seems like it does not rub now. you could see a bit of wear on the coil, so it was rubbing. I cleaned up the flywheel too a bit, just to clear out any gunk or debree...
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    1973 4hp Evinrude

    I set them to .02 for now. and cleaned the points. didn't see anything in there too weird so I'll try running again and see how it goes.
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    1968 3hp Johnson

    thanks for the pic and input, now to see if I can actually make sense of it ... lol
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    1973 4hp Evinrude

    I got a chance to mess with the fuel pump screws. I took out the really wide gasket and just cut a paper one to match, much thinner. I did this on a 3hp 68 Evinrude, the aftermarket fuel pump screws were wrong and the original ones were not long enough becuase the fuel pump was fatter. Seemed...
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