1971 85HP Evinrude HELP

[JRegier]

Well, I got a motor that LOOKED like it was in decent shape; compression looked good, etc until I went to start it...
That's when I heard the squeak.
I pulled the upper bearing housing only to find the bearing rusted out, pulled the crank and found the same thing.
I plan on getting a "new" crank (cylinder walls and pistons look immaculate) but I was wondering if its hard to replace the upper bearings in the housing and how to get the old one out and the new one in.

 

[F_R]

Re: 1971 85HP Evinrude HELP

Stick the bearing housing in your wife's oven when she isn't looking and heat it up to 3 or 4 hundred degrees. The bearing will almost fall out.

Have you found the water leak that caused the problem yet?

 

[JRegier]

Re: 1971 85HP Evinrude HELP

Luckily for me I'm a single guy so the oven will finally see some use.

I can't locate a water leak, I was thinking that the whole thing might have been submerged;
There was sand in the exhaust housing.