deerslayer303
Petty Officer 2nd Class
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2009
- Messages
- 101
Hello All, Its been a while since I posted here. But a friend came to me about a week ago and asked for my help. He was at the lake and his 125 started knocking at half throttle so he shut it down immediately and was towed in. Upon initial inspection there is a lot of side to side play in the crank. I grabbed the flywheel and I can move it side to side ( like pulling up and down on each side of the flywheel). I can easily turn the fly wheel back and forth a bit with no resistance as if you were moving the crank and pistons. There is no movement in the rod bearings. I pulled the plugs and got each one on the downward stroke then with a wood dowel I tried to push on the piston to see if there was any slop. So anyway I pulled the power head today and I'm going to open her up tomorrow and see what the deal is. Sad too, I have been helping him along with advice on care, maintenance, etc since he bought the boat and this motor ran beautiful, appears to only be run in freshwater (VERY minimal corrosion on bolts etc when pulling the powerhead today) and looks to be a low hour unit. I don't know what happened. But we will soon find out. More to follow with pics.
Note: I love a Force / Chrysler outboard, My favorite being the 3 cylinder single carb motors. I have one on my 17 foot Bayliner Capri and I love that thing. Talk about simplicity. One of these days I want to find an Older Chrysler to play with
Note: I love a Force / Chrysler outboard, My favorite being the 3 cylinder single carb motors. I have one on my 17 foot Bayliner Capri and I love that thing. Talk about simplicity. One of these days I want to find an Older Chrysler to play with