1976 15 HP water jacket problems

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Will Bark

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Re: 1976 15 HP water jacket problems

Google up "Leroy's Ramblings" which is written by The Machinist and somewhere in there I think he talks about building up metal with JB Weld or some type of material. Good luck
 
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thanks will, i just do not know how or which version of JB Weld he used????
 
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Hopefully he will get on this site and be able to give you some guidance; I don't remember him saying anything but JB Weld, i pictured that type that comes in the round plastic tube that you can get from Walley World or any parts house.
 
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Will Bark said:
Hopefully he will get on this site and be able to give you some guidance; I don't remember him saying anything but JB Weld, i pictured that type that comes in the round plastic tube that you can get from Walley World or any parts house.
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i am hoping, i used J-B Stix, but no go, it would not harden, too big of a patch i suppose ?????
 
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Re: 1976 15 HP water jacket problems

what about belzona super e-metal? we use it at work for coal chutes. you mix grey and white putty together and it hardens. i've patched up a variety of things with it. this is what it lists it is used for...
Applications include:

Oversized bearing / bush housings
Fractured and holed casings
Leaking tanks
Scored hydraulic rams
Sloppy keyways
Scored machine beds
Fractured pipes
Undersized / scored shafts
Stripped threads
 
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well here is what i did. i used the old aluminum plates that used to be at the bottom of my front door when we bought the house. It was changed to brass, ASAP.

then i cut some small strips to
A) fit inside the housing to build it back up. and then the outside for the same reason.
B) used J B Weld on the inside of this wide track to "fill it in"

this is all mute anyway, and will be saved as a backup. I found a 78 9.9 basket case ( for 200)with the power-head blown apart, but everything else intact. for now i will switch lower units, and the transom mount bracket. during the winter i will change out the exhaust bracket section as well.............boom back in business

new pics of the repair

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/Davem3TFragger/DSC00764.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/Davem3TFragger/DSC00765.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/Davem3TFragger/DSC00775.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/Davem3TFragger/DSC00776.jpg

this power-head is mint, 210 lower cylinder and 185 in the top, well within the 10% margin :)
 
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