I’m wondering if this was a rebuilt engine myself. It looked really clean on the outside. In retrospect, surprisingly clean for a 25 year old engine.
Edited to add - the reed stops do have some slight corrosion but the sludge wipes off really easily as shown in this picture. Guessing there’s...
Ah sorry didn’t realize it dropped the pic of the pistons for some reason. Have not checked gear oil. I’ll get pictures of flywheel today when I get home but it seemed to be in great shape.
Hello - this is my first time here and definitely my first time taking a motor apart. I’ve got a 2001 Mercury 40 2-stroke that came on a 1-owner grizzly Tracker I bought a couple months back.
Ran it a few times and seemed to run fine. We took it out on the lake for a long day, pretty loaded...