"today was a comedy of errors.
"today was a comedy of errors. I'll spare all the details but my distributor was off 180 degrees. A couple of people get prizes for that answer
The comedic part was after I corrected that, I STILL couldn't get it started. Out of the blue I had no spark. Hmmm, ok swapped back my old coil -nothing. Took the cap off and the rotor falls apart. Ok, grabbed one from the other engine, still nothing. The coil wire has been falling out of the coil so I grab that too from the other engine and that one works but the end is fried up. Still nothing...
If I'm the 1st one to do this I should get an award. I went to lunch and and hit me.... it wouldn't start because I was trying to start it with the remote starter! Yeah, that will turn it over but doesn't energize the ignition.
I had it setup to fix the distributor issue and just kept using it.
Ok, now it's running, I'm ready to winterize. I hook up the garden hose, let it idle and it immediately heads towards an overheat. The risers and elbows are getting hot. It's not exhausting any water...
I shut it down and realize that I connected the raw water pick up hose to the wrong side of the u-cooler. It's opposite of the other engine.
I reverse it and now the pump is making a huge racket. I figured the impellor is shot because I ran it dry and I was planning on changing it anyway.
I grab my new one, install it (the vanes are broken on the other one) and it does the same thing! It's not pumping any water.
So, that's where I am. The pump has about a 1/2" of rotational play and probably should be rebuilt but I don't understand why it's not working at all. I only need it to work for about 10 minutes!
I'm going to double check both the orientation of the vanes compared to the engine rotation tomorrow and double-check the hoses. All of this was done in the dark. The other thing I struggled with was the shaft key which orients the impellor. I didn't realize that it was a separate part. It's half moon piece which I wedged back in and then reinstalled the impellor. It took me a couple of tries to get it in w/o the piece falling out. It seems to be locked in now.
Any thoughts?
thanks,
Bob"
"today was a comedy of errors. I'll spare all the details but my distributor was off 180 degrees. A couple of people get prizes for that answer
The comedic part was after I corrected that, I STILL couldn't get it started. Out of the blue I had no spark. Hmmm, ok swapped back my old coil -nothing. Took the cap off and the rotor falls apart. Ok, grabbed one from the other engine, still nothing. The coil wire has been falling out of the coil so I grab that too from the other engine and that one works but the end is fried up. Still nothing...
If I'm the 1st one to do this I should get an award. I went to lunch and and hit me.... it wouldn't start because I was trying to start it with the remote starter! Yeah, that will turn it over but doesn't energize the ignition.
I had it setup to fix the distributor issue and just kept using it.
Ok, now it's running, I'm ready to winterize. I hook up the garden hose, let it idle and it immediately heads towards an overheat. The risers and elbows are getting hot. It's not exhausting any water...
I shut it down and realize that I connected the raw water pick up hose to the wrong side of the u-cooler. It's opposite of the other engine.
I reverse it and now the pump is making a huge racket. I figured the impellor is shot because I ran it dry and I was planning on changing it anyway.
I grab my new one, install it (the vanes are broken on the other one) and it does the same thing! It's not pumping any water.
So, that's where I am. The pump has about a 1/2" of rotational play and probably should be rebuilt but I don't understand why it's not working at all. I only need it to work for about 10 minutes!
I'm going to double check both the orientation of the vanes compared to the engine rotation tomorrow and double-check the hoses. All of this was done in the dark. The other thing I struggled with was the shaft key which orients the impellor. I didn't realize that it was a separate part. It's half moon piece which I wedged back in and then reinstalled the impellor. It took me a couple of tries to get it in w/o the piece falling out. It seems to be locked in now.
Any thoughts?
thanks,
Bob"