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Just for grins I am going to post my home made timing tool to get points to break at 180 degrees apart. I have the real tool it just isn’t here with me in Florida. I got to thinking I could make one with a zippy tie and a socket ratchet and socket. The flywheel has 2 marks on it so I lined 1 mark up on the flywheel between the 2 marks on the magneto plate near carb then took a sharpie and marked the back of the magneto plate where the other mark is on the flywheel. Once you mark the backside of the magneto plate with sharpie very carefully remove the flywheel without turning crankshaft and put the socket ratchet and socket on flywheel the carefully rotate it using the ratchet teeth in socket until the zippy tie is between the 2 marks on front of magneto plate. You can then rotate it to the rear sharpie mark you made on the back of magneto plate. You can then make your points adjustments and re-check them to be safe and assured they are breaking 180 degrees apart.
The pictures will illustrate what I did better than anything. It actually worked pretty well and I could slip the zip tie off wrench when finished and re-use it.
Guess I will call it the JoeSnuffy Special Timing Tool. lol
Joe
Fleetwin,
Sorry for not posting sooner we had friends visiting us for the past week.The engine is running at the correct temperature. Checking it on the right side of the engine with a laser temperature device various places all over on the engine block it runs around 140-163 degrees even down at the bottom of engine where water would normally exit. I ran it for 15 minutes in the tank and no overheating issues the water that exits the telltale is very hot.
I think I will make the telltale permanent the owner really liked the idea of being able to make sure the motor was circulating especially since it is the folding motor.
That is where I am at on the motor I haven’t pulled the power head. The owner is in no hurry to get the motor back he is using the one I sold him at the moment to get back and forth to his sailboat and he told me to do whatever I want to the motor so I may pull the power head since it would overheat if I plug off the telltale I put in. I have been careful not to overheat the motor that is why the paint doesn’t look burned. When I felt it getting to hot I turned it off immediately.
I’m having a boat lift and dock extension put in at my house starting today so that will be keeping me busy for a few days but I will report back when I get some more info.
Thanks,
Joeps I ordered the gaskets.
Fleetwin,
Finally got some time and pulled the powerhead and found the restriction. I also put in a brass barb and am going to leave the telltale so owner knows the motor is circulating.Underneath the power head their is a small type winding gutter that was clogged with some kind of brown mud type stuff and was stopping the water from exiting in the exhaust tube. You can see in the pics where I am pointing to the gutter and where I have the pointer in the hole in exhaust tube where water exits.
Here is where I made the taltale permanent. I used a small piece of black hose for water to exit the inside of black hose has a very small inner diameter. I drilled it out like a half inch inside the tube to get it to fit onto the brass barb and used a metal hose clamp.
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