Reply To: 1969 4hp Folding Johnson Outboard not circulating

[Don]

Hmmm, that water tube grommet in your picture does not look right to me…I hadn’t messed with one of these engine until last year, it is a 1966 model… perhaps the 69 models are different…Nonetheless, on the 66 model, that grommet stuck up farther, just slightly above the casting, so as to make a good seal between the metal mating surfaces…Yours appears to be down a bit, so cooling water could escape between the mating surfaces….Maybe your grommet had split and part of it has broken off…
Again, don’t have much experience with these folders, so might be all wrong here.