Thread: F100 Problem number one through ....?

Here may be one reason it runs like garbage:

It's got a garbage Prime Starter.

One of these are not like the other:



You can see completely missing parts, and even broken parts.

And below you can see the fixture that the above goes into, and it gots different screws holding it on! Someone been in here, and someone dint put it together right. But still, this is only a "Primer", and really only is needed during cold start. Still, when the motor is running it could be letting in too much fuel. Perhaps one reason it runs like gargage. But wait for it, there may be more!!!!






And here's the video of it running like garbage in case you dint see it:

I learned the hard way. I put a new head gasket in, and when I tightened the head bolts, what I thought was right, was wrong. I torqued it down on my bench, and what I thought was 90 degrees and the correct torque was not correct. I did the first one, seen it went to 45 ft lbs when I turned it to 90 degrees. And I found out later, 90 degrees should have put it at 51 foot pounds. Part of the reason was because I use the old head bolts. Which I know you should not use, but I did because this is an unknown engine, in which I may be completely rebuilding. But I did not want to do so without at least hearing it run. I wanted to know if there were any other prevailing issues with the motor before investing more into it.




Anyway, I have a new head gasket installed already, and it runs the same, like garbage. But I don't have new Prime Starter yet. And I burnt up the gears on the starter motor. So this project is officially ON HOLD pending parts....

And don't even get me started, on the starter motor:

I'm so covered up with repairs right now but when I'm not Slab I really like a problem, they are fun to me. I'm hoping to get to one of my project engines by this summer anyway. Good luck.

I have the 24hp Honda motor in the Side x side to build when the weather gets warmer. Also have the 1976 Hobart welder that needs some carburetor work and possibly throttle body injection

Keeping you busy when you and Kovu’s Gang of 4 should be on the water!

Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie

Keeping you busy when you and Kovu’s band of 4 should be on the water!

You mean this band of four?



This was yesterday.

I did not mention my other self inflicted problem.



I always think I know better. So, because I thought I'd be taking this engine apart again, and since I was only "testing" it running a little. I thought I'd do the smart thing, and not tighten the flywheel to specs. I figured "gootentight" would be good enough. After all, I broke three pullers getting that darn flywheel off the first time, I wasn't gonna go through that again. Well, well, well. It turns out, it wasn't the smart thing!

I sheered the Woodruff Key between the flywheel and the crankshaft! doh

The good news is, that flywheel was real easy to take off this time!

And when you think about it, with the timing off a bit, this may be part of the reason I smoked the gears in the starter motor. Backfires while trying to start it, spinning things forcibly backwards. Don't really know, but a possibility.

And you guys thought I knew what I was doing.

Originally Posted by Slab

I did not mention my other self inflicted problem.



I always think I know better. So, because I thought I'd be taking this engine apart again, and since I was only "testing" it running a little. I thought I'd do the smart thing, and not tighten the flywheel to specs. I figured "gootentight" would be good enough. After all, I broke three pullers getting that darn flywheel off the first time, I wasn't gonna go through that again. Well, well, well. It turns out, it wasn't the smart thing!

I sheered the Woodruff Key between the flywheel and the crankshaft! doh

The good news is, that flywheel was real easy to take off this time!

And when you think about it, with the timing off a bit, this may be part of the reason I smoked the gears in the starter motor. Backfires while trying to start it, spinning things forcibly backwards. Don't really know, but a possibility.

And you guys thought I knew what I was doing.

Still cheaper than a new outboard or Outboard Mechanic's School. I can't say I have ever seen a broken Flywheel Key, a first for me.

Originally Posted by Rojo

Still cheaper than a new outboard or Outboard Mechanic's School. I can't say I have ever seen a broken Flywheel Key, a first for me.

Second one for me!

Here's the story about the first time I sheered a Flywheel Woodruff Key.

It was long ago, I was in my twenties, My buddy and I were fishing out of a square back Grumman Canoe. The canoe had a 3.6 HP Sears outboard on it. A storm was approaching.

We were on the far side of the lake from where we were camping, on Lake Carrol in Illinois.. We watched a squall line approach. We decided to high tail it back home. I had this little 3.6 HP motor running flat out through three foot waves. The motor was out of the water half the time.

We were coming up to a bay, and I turned to stay nearer to the shore. That was the big mistake. The canoe flipped. It's a longer story, but with 60 MPH winds and 3 plus foot waves, we were in trouble. We both had our life jackets on, but my buddies orange old style (I think they call them Mae West style) flipped off over his head and was gone. I had not zipped my life jacket up, and it had flipped up over my head, and i was under water. We both seriously thought each other were dead. Anyway, we did make it, my buddy floated to shore holding the plastic 6 gallon fuel tank, and I was able to pull my jacket back on. We lost all other tackle and fish poles, and we did not care. We lived.

OK, so as it turns out, that 3.6 hp sears outboard motor was running flat out when it hit the water. It would not start again. About a year later I decided to investigate, I took the motor apart and I found a sheered woodruff key between the crankshaft and the flywheel.