Things starting to come together for ya...Congrats.
So here's the update. I did manage to get the starter motor working. I used parts from two broke ones, to make one working one, kinda. It's over run clutch is bad too, but I managed to get a compression test done on the one cyl that previously tested as low. I had a feeling the guage I was using wasn't seating correctly. Well, I got a new compression guage and I got a good compression reading. Yay!
Were the previous guage only reached 90 PSI on this cyl, the new one, a press in type one, got 150 PSI. yay
Things starting to come together for ya...Congrats.
Proud to have served with and supported the Units I was in: 1st IDF, 9th INF, 558th USAAG (Greece), 7th Transportation Brigade, 6th MEDSOM (Korea), III Corp, 8th IDF, 3rd Armor Div.
1980 Ebbtide Dyna-Trak 160 Evinrude 65 Triumph
Second one for me!
Here's the story about the first time I sheered a Flywheel Woodruff Key.
It was long ago, I was in my twenties, My buddy and I were fishing out of a square back Grumman Canoe. The canoe had a 3.6 HP Sears outboard on it. A storm was approaching.
We were on the far side of the lake from where we were camping, on Lake Carrol in Illinois.. We watched a squall line approach. We decided to high tail it back home. I had this little 3.6 HP motor running flat out through three foot waves. The motor was out of the water half the time.
We were coming up to a bay, and I turned to stay nearer to the shore. That was the big mistake. The canoe flipped. It's a longer story, but with 60 MPH winds and 3 plus foot waves, we were in trouble. We both had our life jackets on, but my buddies orange old style (I think they call them Mae West style) flipped off over his head and was gone. I had not zipped my life jacket up, and it had flipped up over my head, and i was under water. We both seriously thought each other were dead. Anyway, we did make it, my buddy floated to shore holding the plastic 6 gallon fuel tank, and I was able to pull my jacket back on. We lost all other tackle and fish poles, and we did not care. We lived.
OK, so as it turns out, that 3.6 hp sears outboard motor was running flat out when it hit the water. It would not start again. About a year later I decided to investigate, I took the motor apart and I found a sheered woodruff key between the crankshaft and the flywheel.
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I don't float at all, scary to even read. The experiences we live through amazes me all the time as numerous are not so fortunate. Great share Slab.
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