Murphys Law
This evening I gave my ancient Suzuki D2 outboard a static run in a barrel of water (its back from being borrowed for about 12 months) after cleaning the plug it fired and went well...........this motor will go in my Hudini.
after idling a bit rough it settled down and I ran it for about 10mins all good.I decided to drain 98% of the fuel and let it run dry so I could clean it and generaly give it sime TLC.
started it again and let it run at a fast idle all good contemplated grabbing a beer while it ran dry when it let out a sound like a cat got caught in the prop........shut it down immedietly.
Kinda glad it happened in backyard and not on boat something has gone in drive train as power is not coming to prop feels like its at the top end of drive shaft.
So now its in for a teardown which probaly is a good idea found a manual on Ebay and thats on its way now. at least it will be easy to clean and paint in pieces.
Hopefully its no more complicated than my mower or chainsaw a nice break from sanding.
Cheers Paul
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24-05-2010, 09:18 AM
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