jasonalden
Petty Officer 3rd Class
- Joined
- Jun 4, 2004
- Messages
- 89
Let me briefly state that I appreciate everything you gentlemen are doing to help us novices (me). I have never taken apart any engine before. My experience is limited to changing out car waterpumps, alternators, and other basic components. I would never have attempted what I am doing without the support of this forum, and I am grateful for that. I agree that I should have solved the original problem with this engine early on ("Lazy Cylinder..." post), however intimidating as it was to me at the time. Yes this was a "run it till it breaks" engine. Not any more. I've learned my lesson. Thank you Rodbolt for recently pointing out that my head gasket was possibly leaking. I've got to figure out how that happened. I'm getting hundreds of hits on my webpage regarding this issue. I have promoted iboats.com on there in several places. Now, I'm done with the run on paragraph...so here we go with meat & potatoes.<br /><br />1) Trying to clean exhaust manifold, book says "wash with solvent" & "scrape" for this and other parts of the internal objects. Solvent? I'm not a smoker or a pyro so is gasoline a sufficient solvent...otherwise another run to the store for carb cleaner.<br />Exhaust Manifold <br /><br />2) Some areas on the exh cover plate (water side) as well as exh cover have thick areas of "build up" (corrosion). Can I use a wire brush to remove this. If so what happens when the paint gets removed...is there some sort of paint I can later apply to protect the metal?<br />Exhaust Cover <br />Exhaust Plate <br /><br />3) Observation: Exhaust cover thermostat spring loaded plastic insert wouldn't move in its hole. There was some corrosion on the metal part prohibiting the plastic piece from moving. Further, I cannot figure out how this works (to limit or allow water...?).. so not sure if this is a problem or not (contributing to failure).<br /><br />4) A number is hand-etched into the lower area of my crankshaft. Is this normal - could this have meant that the crank was replaced before, or worked on, or what...<br /><br />5) Crankshaft has sort of "rings" that the book doesn't show in the diagram for my engine (but does show this for the 200 and they are called "sealing rings")....?<br /><br />Sorry this is a book...