naturelover
Tree Freak
Yea I know, not a chainsaw, but it does cut water... sort of.
If the mods want, they can move or delete it, but since it is a two stroke and kind of different from the usual, might be kind of cool to see whats inside the 5hp, 6.9 cube Sea King. Ya'll can tell me if you see anything that needs improving or something I need to do differently.
Besides, who knows, if I get it running, maybe I'll send it off to be ported!
Parts are doubtful, and don't know when I'll really get time to work on it, but hopefully have it up and ready to do some fishing with it this spring or summer if all goes well.
Posted about this motor in pop-up piston thread a while back.
Well, decided what the heck, seem to have everything chainsaw related running for now, so up comes the outboard.
First problem was the recoil.
Cut the spring off square behind the break, heated it up to rebend the end and quenched it in some used motor oil to temper.
One problem down!!
Next was sanding the coil and flywheel magnets. Points and such looked good, and not sure about the tape around the condenser wire. Will check the gap before final assembly, and look at the electrical tape, may replace it with some heat-shrink or something.
So stuck on the flywheel and newly re-wround starter and put a plug to her and I'll be, she fired!!!! Why can't my Shindy 500 be so forgiving!!?!?!?!
Guess next is to see why the compression is marginal, hopefully its something simple like stuck rings, will then have to see about fuel and such.
If the mods want, they can move or delete it, but since it is a two stroke and kind of different from the usual, might be kind of cool to see whats inside the 5hp, 6.9 cube Sea King. Ya'll can tell me if you see anything that needs improving or something I need to do differently.
Besides, who knows, if I get it running, maybe I'll send it off to be ported!
Parts are doubtful, and don't know when I'll really get time to work on it, but hopefully have it up and ready to do some fishing with it this spring or summer if all goes well.
Posted about this motor in pop-up piston thread a while back.
Well, decided what the heck, seem to have everything chainsaw related running for now, so up comes the outboard.
First problem was the recoil.
Cut the spring off square behind the break, heated it up to rebend the end and quenched it in some used motor oil to temper.
One problem down!!
Next was sanding the coil and flywheel magnets. Points and such looked good, and not sure about the tape around the condenser wire. Will check the gap before final assembly, and look at the electrical tape, may replace it with some heat-shrink or something.
So stuck on the flywheel and newly re-wround starter and put a plug to her and I'll be, she fired!!!! Why can't my Shindy 500 be so forgiving!!?!?!?!
Guess next is to see why the compression is marginal, hopefully its something simple like stuck rings, will then have to see about fuel and such.