On Apr 20, 8:20*am, Tim wrote:
On Apr 20, 8:06*am, Loogypicker wrote:





On Apr 20, 8:30*am, Tim wrote:

I couldn't resis, so I went out and muffed the Oli and fired it up
this morning. It's cold here and took a couple hit and cough's, but on
the third time it high idled well, and after taking the choke and idle
down, it had that neat 'cackle'

Engine had good compression and fires evenly. I didn't have time to
clean off the engine, but will do that this evening.. This float had
been trailered on some pretty dusty roads and with the grommet gon
from the throttle cable to the cowl base it's got some crap in thre
but not really bad.

Jut by looking around, I detected a bit of minor oil weepage from up
in the flywheel area but nothing that I'd be considering of a great
concern. I'll probably run it this season but change the seal out this
winter.

Another thing I though was cool is that it still has the origional
Prestolite starter motor still on it. So, it must be a good runner
because that's the first thing that would burn out due to extended and
over cranking.

BTW, the guy said the engine fouls plugs like crazy but he also said
he mixes the oil pretty thick too. I believe it because especially
when choked it fogged like crazy, and with no breeze, there was the
neatest blue haze hovering across the back yard.

But till, I cant have that, so I'll have my brother mix the gas/oil.
He's the Amzoil expert. Not to find a place that sells straight
gasoline intead of the gas-o-hol mix.

I think I have a winner!

Tim, I had a V-4 135 horse on a bass boat I had. That thing always
ran. It also sucked gas like there was no tomorrow! It ran fine on
today's gas blend. Yes, they'll foul if you are at low speed for long.
Also in that era there were two different trim/tilt motor/pump
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I believe my trim motor is the calco. it's sort of a self contained
motor that is attached onto the pump assy with three bolts in the
triangular configuration. I never did like the presto's, I used to get
them in and they were always full of rust and trying to solder the
brushes in were a real pain. Same with the Presto starter motors.

they were a pain to work on,too! *especially trying to get the brushes
installed with that flimsy fiber brush holder 'card'

The permanent magnet United Tech model starters are so much better.
and cheaper as well. I can still get parts for the presto starters,
but they're didiculous in pricing. Just an armature for the Prestolite
costs me more than thewhole UT starter!

And yes, I imaging it will suck the gas. The old two cycles weren't
economocal, But for the price of a modern 4-banger of being around
9-15 thousand bucks, a guy can burn a lot of fuel for a long time.

The float came with an older 6.5 gal steel tank and the guy I got it
from also installed a 13 gal plastic. I think I'm gong to need another
13 too. And maybe a 20 on the inside.

But if my two strokes ever crap out on me, I'm going oto take it to a
welding shop and install a 120 hp mercruiser alpha 1, I salvaged from
a clapped out mid 70's Mart Twain. 18 ft. I also have some ideas of
going with a home made hybrid drive too!

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Well, this evening, I'm going to assess some things and start pulling
and replacing hoses. I don't see anything cracked or worn, but
they're probably getting a bit hardened since they are origional since
probably about 1977 or so, and could probably need some attention