toonin4fun
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"Well, as I said I'm a new
"Well, as I said I'm a newbie here referred here by a pontoon forum I visit and had some questions and they said someone here might be able to help me out.So here it goes..I have an 87' Johnson 110 VRO that has not been started in about 5 years. I have cleaned and rebult the carbs,worked on the impeller to get water coming out of the pee hole,and other misc items have bee addressed.
When I put it in a test tank and got it running, it seemed to have a rough idle and would cough or backfire every so many revs. When I put it in gear and punched it, it came to life and didn't miss a lick. I thought I saw some water coming out of the motor somewhere, but couldn't pinpoint where. When I shut it off, I pulled the plugs out and checked them to see if they were firing ok. Three of them looked like they should, but the #4 plug looked wet, and when I put a lighter to the plug, it didn't burn(water?).
I thought it had the signs of a leaking head gasket so I pulled the heads off to change them and found it was leaking around the #4 cylinder. Upon further investigation, I found a crack in the casting between the water jacket and the outside of the casting(my water leak I saw). I don't see were it would hurt to leave the leak alone, other than leaking a little water into the housing. I was thinking about using something such as JB Weld to help mend the crack and slow down the leak and was wondering if anyone has ran into this before or heard of anyone trying this.
I have a pic that I will try to post to show the crack so you can see where the crack lies,like I said it is not in the cylinder wall so I don't see where it would hurt, but thats why I'm here to see if I'm missing anything.
Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated!! Thanks
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"Well, as I said I'm a newbie here referred here by a pontoon forum I visit and had some questions and they said someone here might be able to help me out.So here it goes..I have an 87' Johnson 110 VRO that has not been started in about 5 years. I have cleaned and rebult the carbs,worked on the impeller to get water coming out of the pee hole,and other misc items have bee addressed.
When I put it in a test tank and got it running, it seemed to have a rough idle and would cough or backfire every so many revs. When I put it in gear and punched it, it came to life and didn't miss a lick. I thought I saw some water coming out of the motor somewhere, but couldn't pinpoint where. When I shut it off, I pulled the plugs out and checked them to see if they were firing ok. Three of them looked like they should, but the #4 plug looked wet, and when I put a lighter to the plug, it didn't burn(water?).
I thought it had the signs of a leaking head gasket so I pulled the heads off to change them and found it was leaking around the #4 cylinder. Upon further investigation, I found a crack in the casting between the water jacket and the outside of the casting(my water leak I saw). I don't see were it would hurt to leave the leak alone, other than leaking a little water into the housing. I was thinking about using something such as JB Weld to help mend the crack and slow down the leak and was wondering if anyone has ran into this before or heard of anyone trying this.
I have a pic that I will try to post to show the crack so you can see where the crack lies,like I said it is not in the cylinder wall so I don't see where it would hurt, but thats why I'm here to see if I'm missing anything.
Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated!! Thanks
