tater76
Senior Chief Petty Officer
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Re: Took the head off my motor, heres a video explaining everything.
Wow! you have been busy. So, you don't need to have it in the water to adjust the cable. If its sitting in the driveway in neutral you should be able to spin the prop by hand. There should be no clicking in either direction, if there is adjust the cable until you find that sweet spot. One other hint to getting the right adjustment is to have your motor in the full down position. If it is in a tilted position the cables will have a little bend in them giving you a different adjustment. I know some may bawk at that, but its happened to me.
Now the timing will require an automotive timing light. If you don't have one, they can be rented for free from most auto parts places.
Here is the STATIC timing procedure I do to my motors, but its not gospel for all years and models so check your manual too.
I first disconnect spark plug boots from plugs, then remove all spark plugs. Insert all plugs back into the spark plug boots. Now you need to ground the plugs to the engine. I have made myself a jumper wire that connects to all 4 plugs, and grounds to the engine block negative ground wire coming from the battery.
Once grounded, proceed inside the boat. Now put the controls in full forward WOT. Go back to the engine, hook up the timing light positive and negative leads to the boats battery. Then hook the other lead from the timing light to the TOP #1 spark plug wire.
At this point you will need a friend, good kid, or wife to crank the engine while you run the timing light. There are likely 4 timing lines or marks on your flywheel, but they seem to vary with years. Anyway, you only need to worry about the group of three. From left to right the lines are 28 degrees, 30 degrees, and 32 degrees. You want your pointer on the block to line up with the 28 degree mark.
Now have junior or wifey crank the engine while you check and see where the timing is set currently. If it needs adjustment proceed to the little adjustment block under the edge of the flywheel. There should be a set nut and a screw. the screw draws the two blocks closer or further apart depending on what you need. Once you find 28 degrees tighten the set nut and your in business.
You can now perform the link and sync, and once running set your idle screw on the timing tower. Some do the link and sync first (I think thats how Frank does it?), If you have a compression tester this is the tome to do it, as this is pretty much the same prodedure needed to do it.
Wow! you have been busy. So, you don't need to have it in the water to adjust the cable. If its sitting in the driveway in neutral you should be able to spin the prop by hand. There should be no clicking in either direction, if there is adjust the cable until you find that sweet spot. One other hint to getting the right adjustment is to have your motor in the full down position. If it is in a tilted position the cables will have a little bend in them giving you a different adjustment. I know some may bawk at that, but its happened to me.
Now the timing will require an automotive timing light. If you don't have one, they can be rented for free from most auto parts places.
Here is the STATIC timing procedure I do to my motors, but its not gospel for all years and models so check your manual too.
I first disconnect spark plug boots from plugs, then remove all spark plugs. Insert all plugs back into the spark plug boots. Now you need to ground the plugs to the engine. I have made myself a jumper wire that connects to all 4 plugs, and grounds to the engine block negative ground wire coming from the battery.
Once grounded, proceed inside the boat. Now put the controls in full forward WOT. Go back to the engine, hook up the timing light positive and negative leads to the boats battery. Then hook the other lead from the timing light to the TOP #1 spark plug wire.
At this point you will need a friend, good kid, or wife to crank the engine while you run the timing light. There are likely 4 timing lines or marks on your flywheel, but they seem to vary with years. Anyway, you only need to worry about the group of three. From left to right the lines are 28 degrees, 30 degrees, and 32 degrees. You want your pointer on the block to line up with the 28 degree mark.
Now have junior or wifey crank the engine while you check and see where the timing is set currently. If it needs adjustment proceed to the little adjustment block under the edge of the flywheel. There should be a set nut and a screw. the screw draws the two blocks closer or further apart depending on what you need. Once you find 28 degrees tighten the set nut and your in business.
You can now perform the link and sync, and once running set your idle screw on the timing tower. Some do the link and sync first (I think thats how Frank does it?), If you have a compression tester this is the tome to do it, as this is pretty much the same prodedure needed to do it.
