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This is a different 35hp motor from the one I worked on last week (that one seems OK to go now, thanks again).
This is an ’82 35hp SS/Tiller model with ES.
It is getting no water into the water jacket – no water passing through the telltale. I pulled the tell tale right off the plastic ‘L’ and all it is spitting is air, or nothing at all. The cooling system was acting erratically even on the initial test run.
With this motor, some knucklehead overtightened the aft electric start screw (the one that goes on the front of the crankcase), stripped the orifice, retapped it poorly with a larger screw, and restripped it. It is so mucked up that I doubt JB welding a stud in there would hold the starter in the right position (and I’ve tried a couple of things to shim that starter, but it is still working it’s way out of alignment). So I am probably going to have to just switch out powerheads regardless before I can fill this order for the customer because he needs a short shaft motor with ES/remote for his whaler.
So this powerhead is getting switched out no matter what, and will be used as a manual start motor next year regardless.
Just figured I’d ask about if there were any water cooling system issues other than the collapsed water tube guide I should know about before getting more invasive.
Thank goodness for parts motors!