JamieScott
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- Apr 4, 2008
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Hey there - a bit of a long story but it will give you a background this post.
I've hit that stage in life where my wife and I had a baby about 16 months ago and suddenly my dream of having a boat to just get out on the water for a bit of fishing and pottering around has seemed to grow stronger (maybe it's the need to escape every now and again)
Here in Australia twice a year you are allowed to throw your general household garbage out at the side of the road and the council come around to pick it up. Before they do it's kind of a free for all and you can help yourself to anything that you want. This is a dangerous time for anyone who's a bit of a horder as you nearly crash your car while driving along and keeping one eye on the kerb to see what's being thrown out.
I had a joke with some mates that it would be fun to have a challenge to see who could build a boat with some form of motor just from junk found in the council pickup. A few days later while driving along I saw an infatable tender lying there and so pulled in to have a quick look. Apart from a couple of patches where there's some pin holes she seemed good to go so in the back of the car it went. I brought some oars and within a couple of days had her out on the water! Excellent!
Now here's where the outboard comes in... A week later while driving along through another area where they were throwing things out I spotted an outboard motor - NO WAY!! I turned the car round and went back for a look. It's a 6HP Johnson Seahorse 6R 79E (1979 I'm guessing??). It had the complete engine inside but was missing the bottom section with the prop, water pump and drive shaft. Then on the other side of the heap I spied the other bit. My wife said to me "Your not going to pick that up are you?". Silly question! So now from someone who knows a small bit about car engines I've started to try to figure out how to go about testing the thing to see why someone was going to throw it out and why they may have removed the bottom section before throwing it out.
I've had a good look on here and on other internet sites, I've got some books from the library and started to learn about outboards. I'm going to get hold of a compression tester and see what state the two cylinders are in and whether their's a strong spark but as the bottom section has been removed I'm reluctant to try to start her without any water going in.
Finally here's the question "about time!" I hear you cry.
I'm trying to find out what's missing (if anything) so that I can try to get her going again. Inside the leg of the motor there's a pipe coming down which obviously goes into the water pump once you bold it back on. Also theirs the gear selector rod which I can see goes back into the clamp and screws in place but this rod is loose in the leg and you can move it freely up and down. It's not connected at the top I can just see that it has a 90 degree bend at the top of the rod and this is not connected anywhere. Then the gear leaver/selector doesn't seem to be connected to anything in the top section of the engine. It has a small eyelet inside the engine cover where the top of the leaver is which looks like it should be connected to a cable of leaver system. (I hope this is making sense??). I've tried my hardest to see in the books and Clymer Johnson Manual that I've got some sort of diagram to show me how this linkage works but there's nothing I can find. How does this loose rod connect to the gear leaver?? Am I missing some vital part here?
I can take a few pictures and attach them to this message to show you exactly what I mean if that would help.
Thanks for taking the time to read and any help would great!
Jamie
I've hit that stage in life where my wife and I had a baby about 16 months ago and suddenly my dream of having a boat to just get out on the water for a bit of fishing and pottering around has seemed to grow stronger (maybe it's the need to escape every now and again)
Here in Australia twice a year you are allowed to throw your general household garbage out at the side of the road and the council come around to pick it up. Before they do it's kind of a free for all and you can help yourself to anything that you want. This is a dangerous time for anyone who's a bit of a horder as you nearly crash your car while driving along and keeping one eye on the kerb to see what's being thrown out.
I had a joke with some mates that it would be fun to have a challenge to see who could build a boat with some form of motor just from junk found in the council pickup. A few days later while driving along I saw an infatable tender lying there and so pulled in to have a quick look. Apart from a couple of patches where there's some pin holes she seemed good to go so in the back of the car it went. I brought some oars and within a couple of days had her out on the water! Excellent!
Now here's where the outboard comes in... A week later while driving along through another area where they were throwing things out I spotted an outboard motor - NO WAY!! I turned the car round and went back for a look. It's a 6HP Johnson Seahorse 6R 79E (1979 I'm guessing??). It had the complete engine inside but was missing the bottom section with the prop, water pump and drive shaft. Then on the other side of the heap I spied the other bit. My wife said to me "Your not going to pick that up are you?". Silly question! So now from someone who knows a small bit about car engines I've started to try to figure out how to go about testing the thing to see why someone was going to throw it out and why they may have removed the bottom section before throwing it out.
I've had a good look on here and on other internet sites, I've got some books from the library and started to learn about outboards. I'm going to get hold of a compression tester and see what state the two cylinders are in and whether their's a strong spark but as the bottom section has been removed I'm reluctant to try to start her without any water going in.
Finally here's the question "about time!" I hear you cry.
I'm trying to find out what's missing (if anything) so that I can try to get her going again. Inside the leg of the motor there's a pipe coming down which obviously goes into the water pump once you bold it back on. Also theirs the gear selector rod which I can see goes back into the clamp and screws in place but this rod is loose in the leg and you can move it freely up and down. It's not connected at the top I can just see that it has a 90 degree bend at the top of the rod and this is not connected anywhere. Then the gear leaver/selector doesn't seem to be connected to anything in the top section of the engine. It has a small eyelet inside the engine cover where the top of the leaver is which looks like it should be connected to a cable of leaver system. (I hope this is making sense??). I've tried my hardest to see in the books and Clymer Johnson Manual that I've got some sort of diagram to show me how this linkage works but there's nothing I can find. How does this loose rod connect to the gear leaver?? Am I missing some vital part here?
I can take a few pictures and attach them to this message to show you exactly what I mean if that would help.
Thanks for taking the time to read and any help would great!
Jamie
