johnson 140 saga continues

[phatdaddy]

when you energize the key switch, does the horn beep?
should be able to take the wire going to the temp sensor, touch it to the block and the horn will sound(with the key on).

[thebottomfish]

The horn has never beeped from the key being turned to the on position(never knew it should) so I will try grounding that wire tomorrow. Does anyone know if it's the tan wire or the white with black stripe?

The ferminator...what would you do in this situation? Pull the heads?

[THEFERMANATOR]

yes, pulling the heads would be 1st on my list if it got that hot. and the tan wire is for the alarm, white with a stripe goes to the powerpack and controls the fast idle.

[spareparts]

compression test before you do anything, then pull the heads is youve been challenged

[phatdaddy]

are u running premix or using the injection system? not sure on that motor, but if injecting, should hear a horn on precrank (southern word).

[thebottomfish]

I am running premix, previous owner disconnected vro system. I will try grounding the warning horn as well as the compression test this afternoon and I guess I'll proceed from there.
This may seem stupid, but every time I've compression tested I've done it cold, with water running and warm with water running just because the muffs we're going to be on there sooner or later...since I won't be running the motor for this test do I still need to hook it up to muffs?

[phatdaddy]

if u melted t-stats, pump is probably gone also, but it won't hurt to hook up hose.