FishBones is all Smiles - Page 2

willy · #11 05-05-2011, 08:08 PM

Kamikazi I really don't know, engine shows no sign of ever overheating, mechanic says he has seen it on the OMC's many times where edges of the stuff flakes off and sits on top of the engine under the fly wheel. I asked him if it from over heating and he said no, just from sitting there on top for a long time. He showed some of it to me and it does not look like melted material, more like a gunky plasticy stuff which is probably gunky due to the lube I shot up in there to free the timing arm.. Not much of it but enough to get between the timing arm and whatever it moves on and bind it.
Ozzie I made the call not to go today, 16-19 knot winds with 30 knot gusts. I am glad i did as friends said it was a disaster out there today.
I am going out tomorrow with my brother, I asked Rob but he got an invite to go out on a 52 Foot Sport Fisher on a 6 pack charter.
Don't understand his thinking on that, but I will miss him!

spareparts · #12 05-05-2011, 08:18 PM

I think the key here is the stator itself may have gotten hot, could have had an issue with the voltage regulator, or with trying to charge a dead battery that could have caused the stator to get hot enough to melt the potting

THEFERMANATOR · #13 05-05-2011, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by kamikaze

Willy:

I would be suspicious that your motor gotten hot in the past? The only time I have seen a OMC stator coating melt is due to heat. I got really old junk that just is still just fine ;-)

Kamiakze

The stuff Willy is talking about is teh potting material, and it is VERY common for it to come out of teh stator of the 200/225 loopers. And I do mean VERY common. I don't think I've seen one yet more than 3-4 years old without it starting to drip out of it. It's not from overheating, it is just the design of them and the cheap potting material. I've had them on engines that haven't run in years begin to drip just from time, so I wouldn't worry about it. I think I remember asking Willy in one of his other posts if the timing arm was moving because it is a really common problem for this to happen. I think there is some coming out of teh engine I got from Bradford, and that engine doesn't hardly have any run time since he had just replaced that stuff.

reelapeelin · #14 05-06-2011, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by THEFERMANATOR

The stuff Willy is talking about is teh potting material, and it is VERY common for it to come out of teh stator of the 200/225 loopers. And I do mean VERY common. I don't think I've seen one yet more than 3-4 years old without it starting to drip out of it. It's not from overheating, it is just the design of them and the cheap potting material. I've had them on engines that haven't run in years begin to drip just from time, so I wouldn't worry about it. I think I remember asking Willy in one of his other posts if the timing arm was moving because it is a really common problem for this to happen. I think there is some coming out of teh engine I got from Bradford, and that engine doesn't hardly have any run time since he had just replaced that stuff.

Is there any solution to keep this from reoccurring?...

reelapeelin · #15 05-06-2011, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by willy

Ozzie I made the call not to go today, 16-19 knot winds with 30 knot gusts. I am glad i did as friends said it was a disaster out there today.
I am going out tomorrow with my brother, I asked Rob but he got an invite to go out on a 52 Foot Sport Fisher on a 6 pack charter.
Don't understand his thinking on that, but I will miss him!

Good call on the cancelation!!...high wind NO FUN!!...hope ya'll do well today...

THEFERMANATOR · #16 05-06-2011, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by reelapeelin

Is there any solution to keep this from reoccurring?...

Not really. I know the stator on my EVINRUDE before I sold it was starting to just begin to drip down in a spot, and it had never been overheated. It's just one of those nature of teh beast type deals that those with OMC's live with. It doesn't seem to hurt anything other than it will cause teh timing pick-up to stick.

reelapeelin · #17 05-06-2011, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by THEFERMANATOR

Not really. I know the stator on my EVINRUDE before I sold it was starting to just begin to drip down in a spot, and it had never been overheated. It's just one of those nature of teh beast type deals that those with OMC's live with. It doesn't seem to hurt anything other than it will cause teh timing pick-up to stick.

I know it'd COST big time, but if a guy just wanted to, would a new stator correct it...surely Bombardier would have upgraded it...

THEFERMANATOR · #18 05-06-2011, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by reelapeelin

I know it'd COST big time, but if a guy just wanted to, would a new stator correct it...surely Bombardier would have upgraded it...

No, the new ones will do it as well. BRP is outsourcing the manufacturing of the older parts to CDI for electrical from what I have seen. And CDI is what I had on mine.

willy · #19 05-06-2011, 03:18 PM

Thats exactly what the mechanic said Ferm, he has seen it dozens of times.
I ran the boat again today, see the fishing post, it is running fabulous. 29-31 cruise at 38-3900 rpm. Trimmed up a little with two big guys and a full tank all the gear and coolers that 200 Evinrude gets that heavy boat right up on plane and max's out rpm at 5400-5500 rpm.
I think a 225 would be perfect for her but from what I hear the gas use would be much higher. Right now I have run her fishing all day today, and we were running a lot, for about three hours last week, a little high speed running trying to blow it out the week before and the same for about twenty minutes the day I launched her. Still have not hit 3/4 on the tank yet. I am happy with the economy as she is. My buddy with the 25 Maycraft and a single 4 stroke 225 Yammie goes through a lot of gas with his rig, it would kill me to have that kind of fuel economy now, gas is $4 a gallon at my marina and higher other locations nearby.