25XS. I will verify every cylinder with a flywheel mark. Just noticed your post. Thank you!
25XS. I will verify every cylinder with a flywheel mark. Just noticed your post. Thank you!
Turns out CDI electronics is right beside my office here in Huntsville. I will pay them a visit on Monday.
We have verified the timing with two lights now. It is definitely running north of 36 degrees (last mark on the flywheel)
You can tell the starter is struggling to work against the timing but it fires up quickly and runs at a fast idle. Sounds like a very advanced timing like any other engine I’ve heard with high timing. Definitely louder. Sounds like it wants to run wide open if that makes sense.
I’m out of ideas. I’ve checked everything the local mechanics said to check, even replaced parts just to be sure.
Are you sure that the sensor timing ring in the fly wheel hasn't come loose and moved?
Skip Baker, ding ding ding. I had decided to pull that flywheel one more time and that is what I found. I pulled the magnet off with ease.
Ok, so problem found and you now just need a cheap, used flywheel... You'll want to accurately verify TDC now on #1 with a dial indicator and set the timing pointer to exactly zero degrees with the new flywheel.
I'm carefully going thru a 1983 Evinrude 90hp right now and replacing ALL oil recirculation lines, and all fuel & primer lines in addition to carb rebuild. Hoping that a decarbon session after starting it up will bring the slightly erratic compression readings back closer together.
Although I "Bleed Black" for Mercury products, I really gotta hand it to OMC for the perfectly clear, spoon fed service manuals they produced! Perfectly written, step by step procedures and photos of assembled powerheads to clarify wire and hose routing. Recommend the factory manuals for anyone taking the cowling off an older OMC product.
Tom
Thanks Tom. I gotta pick up a manual myself. I’ve got a used flywheel on the way
I like a Mercury myself and we are eyeballing a few Hydrostream/2.5 boats. This old boat kind of happened unexpectedly, but I’m pumped to have it and keep it on the water.
That loose sensor magnet sure dates me - never worked on a V4 with that arrangement, all were cast into the flywheel!
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Yea it actually looks like they are glued on with some sort of epoxy.
Bought one on ebay. Not happy with how rusty it is, but will this affect how it operates? My previous flywheel had zero rust. This boat has never seen salt.
This is the old flywheel with a slipped magnet.
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