Reply To: 1955 Evinrude 25hp sparker/slow crank question

[MHarrington]

Neck, I haven’t had any issues with the starter gear and ring gear binging or anything like that, so I am just going to say they are the same.  I put some oil in the cylinders before I let it set and before I tried to crank it over, it was in gear I took it out and no change. It spins over just fine with the plugs out and with the compression checker still pretty good (on 1 cylinder nothing in the other) also nothing feels to be binding.

Crosbyman, the battery charger says the battery is fully charged I checked it, checked out to be good, there was no electrical on it when I got it someone had removed all trace of the electric start not even a cut wire left, I know it would have been electric start because the model number is that of an electric start model Evinrude.  So for electrical I have my jumper cables going from my battery to my starter solenoid I had laying around and grounded to the block, and a push button switch to work the solenoid and I have 2 battery wires bolted and nutted to gather from the starter solenoid to the starter I cleaned them both till I saw a shine (I tightened them pretty good).  The 35hp starter I am using should be 12v it is from the 970s or early 1980s not too sure I got it with a couple motors as an extra.  If it spins good with the plugs out, I wouldn’t think there would be any binding in the lower unit, I also changed the oil in the lower because I was running some cleaning stuff the get all the extra grease turned oil I missed.  The only thing I haven’t checked is the voltage to the starter when cranking.