With all the boats/motors that I buy, brake, fix, get bored with, and sell I can't believe I haven't found this site earlier.
Anyways I recently bought this:
The guy told me it was a 1989. But he didn't seem to sure about it. Serial #0C250310. He started it up it ran fine, shifted it in and out of fwd/ntrl/rvrs, and everything was cool. I got it home went for a test run and my buddy attempted to screw with the tiller throttle and twisted it past reverse and it got stuck. I twisted it back out of being stuck and it was then stuck in gear and the handle was spinning loose.
Took the tiller arm apart and the black plastic piece in the below picture is broken. My question is: on the tiller shaft that attaches to the black plastic piece there is a rivet that apparently was attached to the plastic piece. Does that mean I have to buy an entire new tiller handle?
One more question: I drained the gear lube on it and it was the color of banana pudding. I've had several motors with leaky lower units and it never was this color. I put it in the jub in the picture below to see if it would seperate and it hasn't yet. Is this maybe the color of some fansy special gear lube? Maybe it's just really really bad? I'm trying to be optimistic but it looks like crap to me...
Thanks for your responses
Anyways I recently bought this:
The guy told me it was a 1989. But he didn't seem to sure about it. Serial #0C250310. He started it up it ran fine, shifted it in and out of fwd/ntrl/rvrs, and everything was cool. I got it home went for a test run and my buddy attempted to screw with the tiller throttle and twisted it past reverse and it got stuck. I twisted it back out of being stuck and it was then stuck in gear and the handle was spinning loose.
Took the tiller arm apart and the black plastic piece in the below picture is broken. My question is: on the tiller shaft that attaches to the black plastic piece there is a rivet that apparently was attached to the plastic piece. Does that mean I have to buy an entire new tiller handle?
One more question: I drained the gear lube on it and it was the color of banana pudding. I've had several motors with leaky lower units and it never was this color. I put it in the jub in the picture below to see if it would seperate and it hasn't yet. Is this maybe the color of some fansy special gear lube? Maybe it's just really really bad? I'm trying to be optimistic but it looks like crap to me...
Thanks for your responses
