arknaplesbay
Recruit
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2007
- Messages
- 3
Hello to all,
Seems like some very knowledgable folks here. This is an older BF5
with shear pin setup. I think they use splined shafts now. Anyway, this motor
goes thru shear pins like water. Put it into gear at minimum throttle, it shears
pins. Increase throttle while underway, it shears pins. We took it in to have the idle lowered, it did nothing. Then I started to make shear pins out of nails
and stainless fasteners etc. THEN....a new problem developed..............
Pull on the starting rope and the teeth in the starting flywheel just break right
off. I replaced the starting gear, one pull and it sheared out 4 teeth and I
have never used the motor again. After considering using the motor as an
anchor I thought I would bounce it off you folks and see if anyone had similar
problems or words of wisdom.
Thanks very much,
JBFaison
Seems like some very knowledgable folks here. This is an older BF5
with shear pin setup. I think they use splined shafts now. Anyway, this motor
goes thru shear pins like water. Put it into gear at minimum throttle, it shears
pins. Increase throttle while underway, it shears pins. We took it in to have the idle lowered, it did nothing. Then I started to make shear pins out of nails
and stainless fasteners etc. THEN....a new problem developed..............
Pull on the starting rope and the teeth in the starting flywheel just break right
off. I replaced the starting gear, one pull and it sheared out 4 teeth and I
have never used the motor again. After considering using the motor as an
anchor I thought I would bounce it off you folks and see if anyone had similar
problems or words of wisdom.
Thanks very much,
JBFaison