Help with resealing my crankcase, 35hp 35E77C 1977

[castires]

I rebuilt the power head about 10 months ago. It has been working great, however I was running on a plane a few weeks ago and lost all power. It would only idle and that's it. I took the cover off and saw that fuel was leaking and coming from between the two halves of the crankcase.

I have everthing torn down and ready to go back together, but I want to make sure I get it back together and that this doesn't happen again. I'm using the Gel Seal (red tube), are there any tricks or anything that I may have missed the first time?

It appears that the two halves mate very well with one another, but something cuased the problem...

Thanks in advance for your help.

BTW - I checked compression and I have 120 on both.

 

[boobie]

Re: Help with resealing my crankcase, 35hp 35E77C 1977

Your loss of power wasn't due to the leaking c/c halves. You have other probs. Spark, carb probs, fuel system probs ???

 

[castires]

Re: Help with resealing my crankcase, 35hp 35E77C 1977

I'm just going by what the boat mechanic told me.

I checked the fuel tank and lines, all are fine. I replaced the spark plugs, but didn't check for spark.

I never messed with the carb, looking at it is enough for me. But I'll open up the manual and take a peak. It just seems like there's so much going on with it that I could really screw it up.

So I'll put the halves back together now. Then where do I begin?

Thanks again for all your help!

 

[boobie]

Re: Help with resealing my crankcase, 35hp 35E77C 1977

Get it back together and then post back with how it's running. We're here to help.

 

[castires]

Re: Help with resealing my crankcase, 35hp 35E77C 1977

Ok. Will do. I'll post back as soon as I get it together and water test it.