Fish Chris
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to be going fishing today, and maybe tomorrow, once more too, "before" I have a chance to get my boat to the shop Thurs. morning ?
Here's the scoop. Last week my throttle started trying to stick, up at around 2300 to 2800 rpms. So, back at the house, I take off the cowling, and find that some of the throttle linkage peices right at the carb, are slightly rusted / corroded ? I spray them with WD40 and work the throttle. The next day on the water, the throttle was much better, only sticking slightly, once or twice.
But I was wondering why the moisture under my cowling.... So yesterday, I fire it up, and then remove my cowling.... And HOLY #%$#$ ! Houston, we have a problem ! It turns out that the lower end of my "water jacket" {I guess its called..... the part where all the water comes into, then gets routed to everywhere it needs to go, from here} has a blown out gasket, and is spraying water straight down, with such force, that my whole motor is filling up with water to the edge of where the cowling seats in !
Crazy thing is, in retrospect, I honestly think this has been happening for like 5 months straight, as I remember WAY back, seeing some water draining down some of the cables coming from under the cowling, and wondering where it was coming from. I thought it was spaying up from the front of the lower unit. Doh !
So anyway..... months of use, without a problem... until the throttle linkage started corroding. The pee hole shows plenty of cooling water pressure.
I think I'm going fishing today.
Oh, but one more thing. How scary is this ? My oil dipstick port (the dipstick apparently seals pretty tightly) is right at, if not slightly below the water level when my motor fills up !!!
Checked the oil yesterday though, and there was no milkyness whatsoever. In fact, it didn't even look too dirty, and was right to the full mark.
So, how crazy am I to run it 1 or 2 more days, after running it maybe 70, days like it is, without a problem ?
What do ya' think ?
Fish
Here's the scoop. Last week my throttle started trying to stick, up at around 2300 to 2800 rpms. So, back at the house, I take off the cowling, and find that some of the throttle linkage peices right at the carb, are slightly rusted / corroded ? I spray them with WD40 and work the throttle. The next day on the water, the throttle was much better, only sticking slightly, once or twice.
But I was wondering why the moisture under my cowling.... So yesterday, I fire it up, and then remove my cowling.... And HOLY #%$#$ ! Houston, we have a problem ! It turns out that the lower end of my "water jacket" {I guess its called..... the part where all the water comes into, then gets routed to everywhere it needs to go, from here} has a blown out gasket, and is spraying water straight down, with such force, that my whole motor is filling up with water to the edge of where the cowling seats in !
Crazy thing is, in retrospect, I honestly think this has been happening for like 5 months straight, as I remember WAY back, seeing some water draining down some of the cables coming from under the cowling, and wondering where it was coming from. I thought it was spaying up from the front of the lower unit. Doh !
So anyway..... months of use, without a problem... until the throttle linkage started corroding. The pee hole shows plenty of cooling water pressure.
I think I'm going fishing today.
Oh, but one more thing. How scary is this ? My oil dipstick port (the dipstick apparently seals pretty tightly) is right at, if not slightly below the water level when my motor fills up !!!
Checked the oil yesterday though, and there was no milkyness whatsoever. In fact, it didn't even look too dirty, and was right to the full mark.
So, how crazy am I to run it 1 or 2 more days, after running it maybe 70, days like it is, without a problem ?
What do ya' think ?
Fish