excel20078
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"Noob here and have some ?s.
"Noob here and have some ?s.
The story: We were fishing just after a huge flood and found 3 motors that washed over a dam back in 2001. We collected the motors and all of them were without cowlings and a few extra parts. Anyway, we let them sit up for 7 years and I reclaimed one of them in a game of chance from the guy who had it in his garage. I proceeded, with zero experience with 4 strokes, and conducted the autopsy. It was a mess inside the water jackets with corrosion doing it's part. I cleaned all that out and luckily there were no problems with the pistons, valves, and the oil covered parts. I cleaned the external engine surface, primed with zinc primer, and painted the entire phantom black. To facilitate painting I removed the drive shaft from the pistons by unscrewing the four bolts that connect the pistons to the drive shaft. The screws were on tight and required a ton of force to remove. Now that I am back putting this together it was time to reinstall the drive shaft. However, and the source of my question, the entire system binds with the piston screws are tightened down. I double and triple checked alignments, positions, and even oiled the heck out of the entire system. The pistons and shaft turn freely when I just hand tighten the screws but once I even put a little torque on them to tighten the whole deal binds. Do you know what the torque requirements are OR what could be my error? Secondly, anyone have a picture of the correct flywheel, timing wheel alignment?
Thanks!"
"Noob here and have some ?s.
The story: We were fishing just after a huge flood and found 3 motors that washed over a dam back in 2001. We collected the motors and all of them were without cowlings and a few extra parts. Anyway, we let them sit up for 7 years and I reclaimed one of them in a game of chance from the guy who had it in his garage. I proceeded, with zero experience with 4 strokes, and conducted the autopsy. It was a mess inside the water jackets with corrosion doing it's part. I cleaned all that out and luckily there were no problems with the pistons, valves, and the oil covered parts. I cleaned the external engine surface, primed with zinc primer, and painted the entire phantom black. To facilitate painting I removed the drive shaft from the pistons by unscrewing the four bolts that connect the pistons to the drive shaft. The screws were on tight and required a ton of force to remove. Now that I am back putting this together it was time to reinstall the drive shaft. However, and the source of my question, the entire system binds with the piston screws are tightened down. I double and triple checked alignments, positions, and even oiled the heck out of the entire system. The pistons and shaft turn freely when I just hand tighten the screws but once I even put a little torque on them to tighten the whole deal binds. Do you know what the torque requirements are OR what could be my error? Secondly, anyone have a picture of the correct flywheel, timing wheel alignment?
Thanks!"
