Re: 1959 evinrude 35hp water around carb have pics
FR btw thank you for your help I am going to take your word for it because i dont know why its doing it so really thank you.
I sort of got the impression that you don't want any more comments from me, but just in the off chance that you do, here is where the stuff is coming from that you showed running out the drain hole. After all, you did post the picture, so I assume that was a question.
1. You put oil in the gas. Every drop of that oil goes through the engine. Some of it is burned (smoke) and the rest goes out the exhaust. The exhaust is cooled by water that is mixed with it after it leaves the cylinders. The result is emulsified, gray foamy mixture of water and oil. Normally it just goes out the main exhaust outlet.
2. It is the nature of two-strokes and especially the old engines such as you have that the fuel and air slows down as it passes through the crankcase. The fuel and oil tends to settle out of the air stream at slow speeds, sort of like falling rain. That settled-out fuel puddles up in the bottom of the crankcase, causing idle and accleration problems. So, back in those days, they used crankcase drain valves to bleed off that puddled fuel. The drain valves simply dumped into the exhaust housing and from there it went out with the stuff mentioned in #1.
All that stuff went out the exhaust into the water and nobody gave it a second thought in 1959. But this is 2009 and people today see it and freak out. Then they post a question on this forum. They either ask about the drain holes or they ask about the scum on the surface of the water when running it in a tank. The question is asked so often that I usually don't even bother taking time to reply any more.
