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

[MHarrington]

Yes, it started a 35hp not even a month ago just fine and is starting to another one now.  The only thing that makes me now think the rod caps are over torqued is the fact that the motor was spinning over just fine before I let it sit for a couple months.  I removed the lower last night and there was still no difference.  I had a thought though that maybe I didn’t run it long enough for all my engine assembly lube to burned off or something and when I let it sit it got hardened like grease.  Not too hard to where you can’t spin the engine but just enough to make a difference.  I mixed up some sae30 oil because I was out of atf and thinned it with acetone and I poured it down into the block to see if that would make my engine assembly lube become lubricant again.  I haven’t heard of this happening before with the engine assembly lube I use but I thought it would be worth a try.  I used Permatex ultra slick engine assembly lube, I always have, I lube it, I have never heard of it getting hard though.  I also checked the battery voltage it was around 12.90v (at the battery).