I forgot to post the video, I got a new video with the pipe's put on right this time, fired it up and it's running good now, ready to put in the boat, but I'm going to wait until I get the new finish on the boat befor I stick the motor in it.
I scraped all the old clear coat off, run a sander over it, and really it looks pretty good, I could judt buff it out and it would look alright, but I bought some flake almost identical to the original color, and I'm going to get a new cup gun to shoot it on. I plan on putting clear gel coat back on it, I'll have to experiment with that some first, if I can't make it look good, I'll just shoot a single stage urethane on it, with the flake mixed into it.
-- Edited by OleRed on Tuesday 20th of September 2011 08:58:58 AM
Well .. I pushed the stroker out-side and fired it up, sounded Good, no water in the oil this time, let it run a bit, warmed it up some, bumped the primaries a couple times, then poked it into the secondaries ... and KluNK ... one of the top two bolts holding the motor to the engine stand broke, dropped the nose of the motor about 4 inches, leaving only the one bolt on top holding the motor up, what a surprize, I thought I'd dropped another one, and it's still running.
When my heart started beating again, I snatched the fuel pump and ignition wires off, and seen what happend, figuring it would stay up till I got it back in the garage, started pushing, and one of the back wheels broke off the stand, I'm Not kidding, turned into a bit of a balancing act getting it under the hoist ... Whew !
When I lifted the motor back up into a level position, water ran out of the exhaust pipe's Hmmmm .. thats Odd, Removed the exhaust pipes, took a skinny screw driver to lift up the flappers to look inside the exhaust ports and the top flappers were stuck up on both sides. These are really the thru-hull adapters I put there to hold the pipes up, and direct the water away from the motor while it's running, the weights that hold the top plappers normally closed were pushed up against the exhaust ports of the maniflods, holding them stuck shut ... thats why I was getting water Up the exhaust ports .. ya just don't get too old to be stupid ! This "bright idea" is why I thought I was getting a water inversion in the exhaust, well, I was, but it was my mistake.
Went to Harbor Freight, got a whole set of new wheels for the stand, installed them, built up a 4X4 brace for the motor mounts to rest on, pushed it back out-side to run it again, this time it all went well, and made more noise, brought the neighbors out.
