sailor_turned_stinkpotter
Petty Officer 3rd Class
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2003
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- 78
I finally finished putting the engine back together with freshly bored cylinders and new 30 thou oversized pistons, and got the corroded/cracked section on the base of the block welded and machined flat.<br />Since this is the first time I have done this with an outboard I was surprised I actually used all the bolts in reasembly and actually managed to missplace/lose only two---one for the head plate cover and one for the the block to base mount---don't ask me how I managed to lose THAT one since it was one of the biggest bolts on the engine!!!!<br />Anyways in my excitement to start the motor I went ahead without these two bolts and the engine started fine with what seemed excessively high compression---170psi in each so that I had to jump the starter battery with my truck to get the darn thing to turn over!<br />But when I shut it down and checked the plugs...the bottom cylinder defintely was taking water AGAIN!(well steelespike, now you can say "I told you so!" 
). <br />So I went and bought a new base mount bolt and after torqing it in, I realized I forgot to fully torque four of the other block base mount bolts. I breathed a sigh of relief...hoping this is why the water was getting into the bottom cylinder, but I couldn't find out because the engine wouldn't restart!!<br />After pulling my freaking hair out for a couple of hours trying to figure out why, I pulled the flywheel and guess what....SHEARED KEY!!!!!!!!!! I didn't torque the flywheel enough. So now its too late to get another key till tommorrow, and my question is will the missing block to base bolt and under-torqed block to base bolts let the water through to the bottom cylinder or will I have to take the whole thing apart again to find another crack somewhere in the block?<br />Thanks, and I'll let you all know the outcome....
). <br />So I went and bought a new base mount bolt and after torqing it in, I realized I forgot to fully torque four of the other block base mount bolts. I breathed a sigh of relief...hoping this is why the water was getting into the bottom cylinder, but I couldn't find out because the engine wouldn't restart!!<br />After pulling my freaking hair out for a couple of hours trying to figure out why, I pulled the flywheel and guess what....SHEARED KEY!!!!!!!!!! I didn't torque the flywheel enough. So now its too late to get another key till tommorrow, and my question is will the missing block to base bolt and under-torqed block to base bolts let the water through to the bottom cylinder or will I have to take the whole thing apart again to find another crack somewhere in the block?<br />Thanks, and I'll let you all know the outcome....