snowseeker
Petty Officer 3rd Class
- Joined
- Nov 1, 2004
- Messages
- 93
I got noise out of both buzzers so I left the two wire in. Seems to work to because I was getting a beep every minute or so for the low oil in the tank.
Ran the motor on the muffs. Then took it on the water for a couple hours. Should I be seeing water out of the upper exhaust port when it is warm? It never over heated but I also never seen much water run out of the exhaust port even after a decent wot run. I did see a tiny tiny bit come out but nothing like I expected. Never was any steam either. I was also only getting a slight dribble out of the water line but the tip was plugged up. When I got home I pulled the lower unit suspecting a bad pump but all is good. I blew air up the water pipe and felt it coming out threw the lower exhaust and the rubber hose on the side of the motor so I feel nothing is plugged up. Should I pull the thermostats to inspect them?
I also found fuel dripping out one of the lower carbs so I also pulled them when I got home and cleaned them all. Again no debris or tell tale of anything stuck in the float valve so thats odd. The carb the fuel was dripping out of did have the float set just a hair high but I feel not enough to over flow. I did reset it level with the bowl anyhow. The valve seat was also in good condition and seated well.
The motor ran well off idle and up to wot. At idle I was getting some coughing so when I get the carbs back on I am sure I will have to readjust them. Besides that I was happy with how it ran. It was surprisingly quiet and had good power. It is set a big high though as it would cavitate easily at higher speeds if I tried to trim it up some. I had my wife drive while I took a look over the back to see what I could see. It looked like the lower unit was well under water but it doesn't think so. Unfortunately I only have one hole to drop the motor so that better take care of it. Only other thing I noticed is the prop doesn't have that convergence ring on it, looks like it got knocked off at some point. Would that cause any of the cavitation issues?
Ran the motor on the muffs. Then took it on the water for a couple hours. Should I be seeing water out of the upper exhaust port when it is warm? It never over heated but I also never seen much water run out of the exhaust port even after a decent wot run. I did see a tiny tiny bit come out but nothing like I expected. Never was any steam either. I was also only getting a slight dribble out of the water line but the tip was plugged up. When I got home I pulled the lower unit suspecting a bad pump but all is good. I blew air up the water pipe and felt it coming out threw the lower exhaust and the rubber hose on the side of the motor so I feel nothing is plugged up. Should I pull the thermostats to inspect them?
I also found fuel dripping out one of the lower carbs so I also pulled them when I got home and cleaned them all. Again no debris or tell tale of anything stuck in the float valve so thats odd. The carb the fuel was dripping out of did have the float set just a hair high but I feel not enough to over flow. I did reset it level with the bowl anyhow. The valve seat was also in good condition and seated well.
The motor ran well off idle and up to wot. At idle I was getting some coughing so when I get the carbs back on I am sure I will have to readjust them. Besides that I was happy with how it ran. It was surprisingly quiet and had good power. It is set a big high though as it would cavitate easily at higher speeds if I tried to trim it up some. I had my wife drive while I took a look over the back to see what I could see. It looked like the lower unit was well under water but it doesn't think so. Unfortunately I only have one hole to drop the motor so that better take care of it. Only other thing I noticed is the prop doesn't have that convergence ring on it, looks like it got knocked off at some point. Would that cause any of the cavitation issues?