Greetings,
Just got my hands on a "hardly used" 2010 Suzuki 2.5 HP. Fired it up in a water barrel at the seller's house and it ran fine in neutral at various RPMs. Also runs fine in gear at very low RPMs. But as soon as I throttle up beyond about 25% when it is in gear, a clunking kicks in. It is a substantial clunk. Almost sounds as if somebody is bonking the transom with a ******** bat. The clunking is also rhythmic. The timing of it remains absolutely constant at a given RPM. When you crank up the RPMs, the clunking increases in frequency. At low RPMs, it clunks roughly every 2.5 seconds. At high RPMs, it clunks about every half second.
In addition to wanting to be able to fix this, I'm wondering if I need to have a talk with the seller about the value of his word.
Many thanks for your advice.
Just got my hands on a "hardly used" 2010 Suzuki 2.5 HP. Fired it up in a water barrel at the seller's house and it ran fine in neutral at various RPMs. Also runs fine in gear at very low RPMs. But as soon as I throttle up beyond about 25% when it is in gear, a clunking kicks in. It is a substantial clunk. Almost sounds as if somebody is bonking the transom with a ******** bat. The clunking is also rhythmic. The timing of it remains absolutely constant at a given RPM. When you crank up the RPMs, the clunking increases in frequency. At low RPMs, it clunks roughly every 2.5 seconds. At high RPMs, it clunks about every half second.
In addition to wanting to be able to fix this, I'm wondering if I need to have a talk with the seller about the value of his word.
Many thanks for your advice.