Reply To: 1959 Johnson RDSL21 35hp issues

[Tom Alexander]

Well today I got out the barrel and ran the engine in it as Crosbyman suggested. I got water spitting out the top discharge as you can see in the pic. The barrel level was about at pump level but not quite as high as it would be with boat launched. Nor there is any evidence of scorched paint nor any smells on engine anywhere. In fact after running for 25 minutes at between 400 and 1400 RPM nothing anywhere on the engine got too hot to grab or put fingers on. My little Klein IR gun never found a surface over 107 Deg F except a couple of spots on the port side bypass covers(?) that has the fuel pump vac hose fitting on the lower and the cut out switch on the upper. They were highest at 128 Deg F. Now to see if I can get the pic file size below 2megs! Well I don’t know where the pics went!?! I expected this to be a continuation of the post thread.  More art than science, and I’m not an artist!!!