OMC Flywheel Magnets

[Skools Out]

As I hope none of you have this problem but i'm sure all have or will if you own a Johnson / Evinrude, If your motor is miss firing and running rough or no fire at all check your flywheel for broken, missing, or loose magnets. I've had a few in the yard that either had crazy firing issues or no fire or no battery charging or tach. It was all due to loose and broken magnets. If you call OMC they offer a Magnet epoxy kit for $14.99 per magnet which doesn't hold either. Just go buy a box of Davcon 5 Min Epoxy and glue them all in with it. Avail at Lowes for $14.95 a box. I just repaired 3 or the 4 flywheels i had broke with only half the epoxy in the box. No they don't have a certain location but they do need a fingers spacing or line up with holes and flywheel flutes.

A 140 Flywheel with loose and broken Magnets before cleaned


A 140 Flywheel with out Magnets after being cleaned


A 225 Flywheel with out Magnets after being cleaned


Magnets laying out from the flywheels


A 225 Flywheel with the magnets epoxyed back in place, notice the box beside the flywheel is the epoxy used for them, works better than OMC's


Another shot of the magnets re-epoxyed in place



Here's the timing part of the flywheel so that's why these magnets have no certain location.