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[willy]

RWilson may be going out with me on Thursday. If we do get out I will get some pics then, now I have to focus on getting my trailer better set up or a new one and look out NJ Get Together here I come

[RWilson2526]

Originally Posted by willy

RWilson may be going out with me on Thursday. If we do get out I will get some pics then, now I have to focus on getting my trailer better set up or a new one and look out NJ Get Together here I come

i'm good for Thursday, got my wife to reschedule her thing from Thursday evening.....Will give you a call tomorrow.

[willy]

Roger that

[reelapeelin]

You two tear 'em up on Thurs!!...and you better take a camera...come back w/fish and pics!!...

[willy]

Roger that, will seek them out.

[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

[THEFERMANATOR]

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]

Originally Posted by willy

Roger that, will seek them out.

Well??......8:42...impatiently WAITING!!...

[willy]

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!