I am not new to boats, but this is a new engine to me. I have not worked on this engine before, but it is a friends boat/engine and it needed some work as its sat for 2 years. This engine also was a TRUE salt water engine that was not flushed, as it sat in the water at the beach most of the time. So everything is much harder to work on, as bolts are breaking easy due to the corrosion, weakening due to the salt water time it has on it.
What I have done is Put a new Water Pump Kit in, the entire Pump, housing everything. Found a leaking seal behind the prop, so we had the Lower Unit Resealed as I did not have the tools to do this. I then rebuilt all 6 carbs on this engine and got everything so it was all ready to start.
We finally got a chance to start the engine up on the muffs, everything was looking good but it does not have much water flow. I am used to an Old Force 125 Outboard that had a bunch of water flow or my Chevy 305 I/O with Thru Hull Exhaust that will pump quite a bit of water out. This Johnson was sucking the water in, as it was not running out around the hose, but there was not much coming out the pee hole. He was in the boat, while I was watching the engine, and it was getting quite hot. So I made him cut the engine off. So we shut it down.
I then noticed the blocks were really hot to the touch, I am used to being able to touch them and it not burn or make you pull your hand away as soon as you touch it, but this was HOT. So I noticed there were 2 thermostat housings, so to test I pulled one of them out, and it looked prety rusted/corroded. So I put the plate back on to make it an open Flow system with no thermostat, then tried to get the other thermostat housing off, but broke the first bolt with little torque. So I let the owner take the other 3 bolts out and they all snapped also. So now I am stuck trying to remove these 4 corroded bolts from the Thermostat housing on the passenger side of the block.
Does this engine just run really hot or does it sound like there is a water Restriction somewhere? I am used to the water flowing pretty freely and not having much troulble being relieved from the block.
Thanks for any and all help you can give.
Bryan
What I have done is Put a new Water Pump Kit in, the entire Pump, housing everything. Found a leaking seal behind the prop, so we had the Lower Unit Resealed as I did not have the tools to do this. I then rebuilt all 6 carbs on this engine and got everything so it was all ready to start.
We finally got a chance to start the engine up on the muffs, everything was looking good but it does not have much water flow. I am used to an Old Force 125 Outboard that had a bunch of water flow or my Chevy 305 I/O with Thru Hull Exhaust that will pump quite a bit of water out. This Johnson was sucking the water in, as it was not running out around the hose, but there was not much coming out the pee hole. He was in the boat, while I was watching the engine, and it was getting quite hot. So I made him cut the engine off. So we shut it down.
I then noticed the blocks were really hot to the touch, I am used to being able to touch them and it not burn or make you pull your hand away as soon as you touch it, but this was HOT. So I noticed there were 2 thermostat housings, so to test I pulled one of them out, and it looked prety rusted/corroded. So I put the plate back on to make it an open Flow system with no thermostat, then tried to get the other thermostat housing off, but broke the first bolt with little torque. So I let the owner take the other 3 bolts out and they all snapped also. So now I am stuck trying to remove these 4 corroded bolts from the Thermostat housing on the passenger side of the block.
Does this engine just run really hot or does it sound like there is a water Restriction somewhere? I am used to the water flowing pretty freely and not having much troulble being relieved from the block.
Thanks for any and all help you can give.
Bryan
