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Pic is deceiving…it’s taken in the bright sunlight outside my shop….and the top half is shaded, hence the color differences. Motor hasn’t been hot enough to injure it….compression is good and cylinders look nice. I finally figured it out with compressed air, after figuring out for sure that it was pumping water. Blowing in the intake hole below the exhaust cover, I could pressurize the water jacket to the point I had air leaking out the screws on the exhaust cover, but nothing coming out the hole in the bottom of the cylinder head. At that point, I pulled the head and went after that w/compressed air and it became rather clear that they’d actually filled the passage, not just sealed a leaking welsh plug.
I’m good enough at making myself look stupid….I don’t need someone else’s help…
Back when I had hair…I spent two days trying to get a fresh motor running in a late ’60’s Correct Craft inboard that someone else rebuilt (a high-dollar engine shop, believe it or not..)….and substituted a standard-rotation cam for a reverse rotation one. That just about had me suicidal…. What finally tipped me off in that debacle was the owner telling me "Oh, yeah, we put a new distributor in because the gear on the new cam was different".
You can’t fix ‘stupid’…..
Jim
I say "pardon me" a lot. I had a 20H, then raced open mod sleds.