Okay!!!
Sure is quiet in here....do I need to start a fight?
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Done finished my Easter Bunny stew fer breakfast. All my Easter eggs to. Go find something else to do, tear into a Suzuki 25 twin that needs a head gasket. Lots of drilling n rethreading later this morning.
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Good luck with that.....sounds like a "Salt water" engine to me.......Never Seize is your friend....
It was used in salt water all its life,never flushed out or drained properly. At 3 years old it developed a miss that the dealer, no good SOB, couldn`t even diagnose properly. The motor got all new electronics,sensors ,spark plugs and carb but the miss persisted, the dealer then gave up and told my friend to buy another motor...LOL
The whole motor got passed on to me, I knew immediately what was wrong with it but wasn`t interested in fixing it. Filled it with twostroke injection oil and its set for 12 years in one of my storage buildings. Time to get it running again.
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LOL.......The time has to be just right for a project like that.....they have to sit until you're ready to tackle it knowing how patient you will need to be and what will have to be done. My 37" Time Saver came to me broken....the guy didn't want to spend the time and money so he just replaced it with a new one....same size and power....few more modern bells and whistles....$16,400.00......sold me the broken one for $1,200.00. Another friend was finishing some ground work at this guys shop so he loaded it on my F 450 with his JD skidsteer and then stopped at my shop on his way home and unloaded it onto my shop floor for free. (some beer)
The problem was, one of the elevators on the feed conveyor table had failed.....couldn't get replacements in that ratio.....so had to buy two new ones that matched......$700.00 each....when they came the mounting holes were opposite the originals......the horizontal input shafts have to be perfectly aligned with each other and the vertical threaded shafts have to be perfectly plumb and in alignment with each other as well to work properly which meant drilling and tapping holes in a very confined place....exactly...perfectly...with no room for error.....one shot deal....that sander sat on my shop floor for 2 1/2 yrs with the new parts in boxes until ALL the stars aligned and I felt I was ready to have a go at it.....plenty of time no rushing....took me about three days to move the machine in to position and level up perfectly....do the set up and get 'er done. It went well and works as good as new now...great machine. The thing weighs about 4500 lbs and does a wonderful job...can sand a 36" wide int/ext door flat to within .002-.004" overall.....well worth the work and patience but could not be rushed into...LOL!!
Yes,...timing is everything...LOL My cutting buddy, Doug, needs/wants a newer outboard with less hours on it than his current patched together Johnson 20 that runs just like a 35 year old outboard should, trouble free since I rebuilt it for him a couple years ago. He knows that 25 hp Suzuki is just sitting in my shed taking up space and has mentioned getting it out and fixing it more than once, more than once this spring...LOL
The Suzuki has maybe 25 hours of actual run time on it as the original owner had it at his summer camp and only used it for one week out of each year, ran about a tank of fuel through it each summer. The motor was stored under cover the rest of the time but developed a miss on his third summer of use. It never really got used again as the dumbasses that were working on it would just throw on a new part. take it for a short run, return and replace another part and repeat. Since the dealer couldn`t fix the motor right my friend wouldn`t trust it and never ran it again. He went out and bought a new 25 Yamaha that has run trouble free since 2004.
I'm putting stuff in the car.
Takin stuff out of the car.
At the same time.
Back to it
Takin stuff out of the car.
At the same time.
Back to it
Yuppers!!!What another trip?
Trying to remember the stuff talked about since this GtG talk started.
And bullets!!
I gots to go get some more for the .17hmr
Got away pretty easy, only one broke off cylinder head bolt, drilled out the center, drifted out one side til it cut through to the threads, nape chisel and a couple of picks removed the old core, threads still good. Polished the head and cylinder deck, new gasket and tightened down all the bolts.
Doug musta been happy .
We will see how happy once we run it in water. I have to change out his fuel hose with the end off the Suzuki replacing the OMC end on it now, then set it up in the test barrel to start it up.
Page II alert !! SLACKERS !!
Madman day
