Reply To: motors that have been on fire/replacing water deflectors

[billw]

I have never seen a serious external fire on an outboard, luckily; although I once saw a Yamaha 225 engine cowl launch a couple of hundred feet straight up, due to an explosion. My personal feeling is that the external fire probably wouldn’t have caused that to melt. I would be more suspect of an over heat internally, on an engine that seems to have been mistreated enough to have caught fire in the first place. Again, just my two cents. I guess if it has stellar compression, it would be good to go with just the new deflectors…..You basically have nothing to loose by trying.

Long live American manufacturing!