You may remember my StarFlite thread - I had a dead 100hp with a good bottom-end, and a line on a running 90hp with a bad transmission....
Well, I sucessfully did the swap... The 100 bottom-end bolts on perfectly (although it is MUCH bigger, with a MUCH bigger prop - same length, just 'thicker', and the prop is about 2x the size), they both use the same transmission wiring, and the 90 starts right up (After some fiddling with the choke at first)...
So now I have a running motor...
But I know jack**** about 2-cycle boat motors...
And this is where my questions start - I need to know if the 90 is running 'right'...
1) When I start the thing it emits a cloud of blue exhaust... If it were a 4-stroke (eg a car motor), I'd say it's burning oil.. But of course, being a 2-stroke & running on gas-oil mix, it should burn some oil, right...
Is this normal?
2) I understand that the thing is water cooled from lake water... Is it supposed to visibly squirt water out of anywhere that I can see? Right now, the only thing that comes 'out' of the hole (rubber hose... Idle relief bellows, I think???) in the leg is exhaust. However, the run-hot idiot light did not come on when I took it for a slow run (5mph or less, about 50ft from shore, in a circle, then back to the dock, revved the engine up, brought it back to idle, and shut down) around the lake...
How can I make sure the water pump is working right?
Well, I sucessfully did the swap... The 100 bottom-end bolts on perfectly (although it is MUCH bigger, with a MUCH bigger prop - same length, just 'thicker', and the prop is about 2x the size), they both use the same transmission wiring, and the 90 starts right up (After some fiddling with the choke at first)...
So now I have a running motor...
But I know jack**** about 2-cycle boat motors...
And this is where my questions start - I need to know if the 90 is running 'right'...
1) When I start the thing it emits a cloud of blue exhaust... If it were a 4-stroke (eg a car motor), I'd say it's burning oil.. But of course, being a 2-stroke & running on gas-oil mix, it should burn some oil, right...
Is this normal?
2) I understand that the thing is water cooled from lake water... Is it supposed to visibly squirt water out of anywhere that I can see? Right now, the only thing that comes 'out' of the hole (rubber hose... Idle relief bellows, I think???) in the leg is exhaust. However, the run-hot idiot light did not come on when I took it for a slow run (5mph or less, about 50ft from shore, in a circle, then back to the dock, revved the engine up, brought it back to idle, and shut down) around the lake...
How can I make sure the water pump is working right?