nphilbro
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Dec 19, 2011
- Messages
- 304
...ok, let's get the jokes out of the way first
"Time to get a new motor"
"Time to upgrade your anchor"
1985 Evinrude 25hp
I picked this up today as a parts motor for some labor trade and already have someone who needs the tiller, which is great since it's set up for controls so I'm not out anything. It still has a ton of other components I can use if needed.
It had apparently lost water flow and it overheated..big time. The owner said it "had no compression." For S&G's I took the [somehow] still in-tact, very brittle, head gasket off, put some soft tack gasket sealer on both sides of it and put the head back on (nothing to lose, I suppose, plus this soft tack stuff comes off pretty easily). Shot some 3 in 1 in the cylinders, rotated the flywheel a dozen turns (quite smooth turning) ran the compression with the starter and got 80/100. I stuck it in the tank and fired it up, it sneezed a bit but got to temp quickly and ran pretty well for almost a minute before I shut back down since it was starting to get pretty warm (still no water out the tell-tale). I shot the compression again and got 82/95. If it's the kind of thing that won't get worse once I fix the waterflow issue I was thinking of just holding onto it as a saltwater kicker instead of parting it out since my 9.9 isn't enough to punch through some of the currents.
So my question is, what is it called when this happens?
"Time to get a new motor"
"Time to upgrade your anchor"
1985 Evinrude 25hp
I picked this up today as a parts motor for some labor trade and already have someone who needs the tiller, which is great since it's set up for controls so I'm not out anything. It still has a ton of other components I can use if needed.
It had apparently lost water flow and it overheated..big time. The owner said it "had no compression." For S&G's I took the [somehow] still in-tact, very brittle, head gasket off, put some soft tack gasket sealer on both sides of it and put the head back on (nothing to lose, I suppose, plus this soft tack stuff comes off pretty easily). Shot some 3 in 1 in the cylinders, rotated the flywheel a dozen turns (quite smooth turning) ran the compression with the starter and got 80/100. I stuck it in the tank and fired it up, it sneezed a bit but got to temp quickly and ran pretty well for almost a minute before I shut back down since it was starting to get pretty warm (still no water out the tell-tale). I shot the compression again and got 82/95. If it's the kind of thing that won't get worse once I fix the waterflow issue I was thinking of just holding onto it as a saltwater kicker instead of parting it out since my 9.9 isn't enough to punch through some of the currents.
So my question is, what is it called when this happens?
