Reply To: Advice on using OMC gasket sealer.

[Monte NZ]

Thanks everyone for your very helpful replies
Aquasonic’s and fleetwin’s suggestion makes sense using a heavier sealer and thanks Mumbles too for suggesting leave it sit for a while (like I thought) before assembling. Thanks Jeff also for your input.
May I add ,that this motor going on appearances has had a terrible life and was headed for the tip. As it has good compression and chucks a good noisy spark I took pity on it………..my wife was not impressed!
One point that I hadn’t mentioned was that I had fitted a single lip oil seal before having just discovered that the correct gearbox seal is double lipped.
I managed to get the correct one from the local agent and have just finished fitting it tonight. Tomorrow I will fill the gearbox with oil and leave it out in the hot sun and see what happens. Unfortunately I don’t have access to a pressure pump, which is the proper way to do it. I did have the use of one a few years back, but the owner has since moved down country.
If it’s any help Jeff and the rest of you, I managed yesterday to find a PDF of the OMC manual for the motor and it said to pump up to 3-6 PSI (21-42 kPa) and put the gearbox in water to see if there are any leaks and if there are no leaks to increase pressure to 16-18PSI (110-124kPa)
I will report back after I see what tomorrows results are.

Thanks once again.

Monte NZ