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August 28, 2016 at 10:45 am
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Wow, kind of unusual to be missing the whole reed. Hopefully it didn’t scratch up a cylinder. I’ve seen some larger hp. Force motors ingest some big pieces of reed valves, then pass them through the exaust with no damage to the powerhead. Hopefully that will be the case here.
I recently worked on a 1965 40 OMC that would barely run after new ignition and fuel system work. Turned out that it had two small set screws that had come loose, one was holding a reed plate open on each cylinder. The screws came from the starter interlock coller, on the front of the recoil assembly….. first time i’ve ever seen that.