Topic: OK, Where Is It? – Antique Outboard Motor Club,Inc

This topic has 10 replies, 9 voices, and was last updated 8 years, 10 months ago by 49hiawatha.

Viewing 10 posts - 1 through 10 (of 11 total)

1 2 →

Author

Posts
March 5, 2017 at 6:22 am #6465
Mumbles
Participant
While tearing this 40 horse Evinrude Lark down, I noticed some signs of blowby on one piston. I knew right away this wasn’t going to be a good day.

After getting the pistons out of their holes, the cause became a bit more obvious.

Where’s the missing circlip?

It’s not here.

And I don’t see any sign of it here either. 😕
March 5, 2017 at 7:00 am #53849
PugetSoundBoater
Participant
That is a real mess. Maybe the c clip got busted up and went out the exhaust ports,or ground up to till there was nothing left.

"Some people want to know how a watch works, others just want to know what time it is"
Robbie Robertson
March 5, 2017 at 7:05 am #53850
frankr
Participant
Earth to earth, dust to dust.
March 5, 2017 at 7:18 am #53852
Mumbles
Participant
Yup, no chance of me bringing this one back to life.

It gone thrown in the scrap bin and will probably come back as a Yamaha or Suzuki.
March 5, 2017 at 11:23 am #53853
billw
Participant
US Member
And yet, it still kept running, probably enough to get the guy home, I bet. Those Big Twins and RDs never knew when to quit. Half the parts would vibrate off of them and they would still keep going like nothing happened.

Long live American manufacturing!
March 5, 2017 at 12:47 pm #53856
wiscoboater
Participant
I’d save that piston just the way it is. Point to it every time a motor buyer asks you if you really need to run at 24:1.
March 5, 2017 at 2:08 pm #53862
ADAM GIBB
Participant
Canada Member
I have a 1955 RD that had the same problem. The motor looked like it hadn’t seen many hours of use. So little, that I wonder if I left the factor missing one clip. It was still cranking over with the wrist pin having cut a groove almost right through the cylinder sleeve.
March 5, 2017 at 3:08 pm #53866
johnyrude200
Participant
quote Mumbles:

Yup, no chance of me bringing this one back to life.

It gone thrown in the scrap bin and will probably come back as a Yamaha or Suzuki.

Go to http://suzuki-sucks.com for a good laugh. This is an old friend who obviously is disgruntled about his experience with a new Suzuki, and he even took his boat out to the miami boat show two weeks ago and flew Japanese flags from the rocket launchers and went back and forth in the bay.

Apparently a lawyer drove up to him in a big boat, who had actually started a website called suzukisucks.com , and suzuki bought the domain from the lawyer just to shut him up. My friend has gone so far as to have t-shirts made and are handing them out to everyone he knows. He even mailed one from me all the way up to New Hampshire from FL, which I have framed and hung in my office.

A great laugh!
March 5, 2017 at 3:44 pm #53868
sailor58
Participant
That sucks.
I had that happen to a 650 Bonneville with a recently installed Routt 750 big bore cylinder. .020 rebore fixed it.
Larry
March 5, 2017 at 4:23 pm #53873
PugetSoundBoater
Participant
quote Mumbles:

Yup, no chance of me bringing this one back to life.

It gone thrown in the scrap bin and will probably come back as a Yamaha or Suzuki.

What about an Etec?

"Some people want to know how a watch works, others just want to know what time it is"
Robbie Robertson
Author

Posts