Gummage

It took until last Wednesday before Endeavour3 made it back to the water and we gave it all a good run. Hydraulics all worked fine! We had some starting problems as the electric choke wasn't functioning. (Why did they put the manual choke under all the cladding on these? Are all outboards like that?) Anyway it's another little thing to investigate and hopefully not such a big challenge. Obviously this is a fairly minority interest thread, but I'd like to thank everyone who showed an interest and helped especially Gonorm and the people that run this site and club......it really is a powerful information exchange. and the fishing.........we and all the undersized specimens in the bay practiced hard for next year and had fun doing it.

looksasgood as new. so good ive uploaded it twice! 20190613_094049.mp4 20190613_094049.mp4

.......no I won't. Enginerr/Welder Graham checked it over with me. neither the ebay photo nor gonorns service manual show this second hole. Its a bit rough roundthe edges because it is a sea corrosion hole. luckily Graham is a qualified aluminium welder. If i could get the unit off and back to his shop he could weld the hole up. Gonorm, your workshop manual was invaluable in its description of how to strip the unit off first undo the large crossbar nuts...despite its age they swung undone easily!undo the three bolts on the side of the unit.... they yielded except the last one which sheared undr the head ....knock the sides apart.......reluctantly they wiggled over and after stripping the wiring...out it came. over the Graham's and.. and he worked his magic. now.... hoping the welding hasnt wreaked havoc with seals etc and i can remember how to pput it back together....the weekend project.

surely it would be worth a very earl start. Wouldnt want to go up there and miss ir.

Ive always fancied a morning in a fish .market. Brixham london or grimsby. im well up for it.

Great hospitality hooky. what it lacked in fishy action it made up for in relaxation.

Thank you Mikey B. Hope fully we will proceed along lines like that. I PMed Gonorm the following which explains where we are at with it..... That's really decent of you Mike, much appreciated . It will be a handy resource as we try to get a year or three more out of this old equipment. About this repair, I'm going to look at it tonight. My engineer mate Graham says we can use so called chemical metal to plug the hole if all else fails. Well on close inspection the hole looks a bit beaten up as in a hammer and chisel job has been used to extract a rounded Allen plug. I suspect the the original plug would have been a steel taper plug with Allen drive . This one is not Shown on the exploded diagram but another one like it is used elsewhere. Anyway I recon a previous owner has had to resort to a bodge repair with chemical metal. I'll let you know how we get on. .........ill try to get a threaded plug in there if I can....

Thanks Mike, that would be helpful. Getting that plug out will likely be a bit of an ' off piste' procedure. It will be useful to get a part number and picture of it. Graham is handy on the lathe and given a pattern might be able to make one if it is not available. We will look at it one evening next week.

Finally got the motor off. looks like the plug has corroded away. I went to clean it with a scrubbing brussh and oil started rolling out. Now when its stopped draining ill have to get the remains of the plug out without forcing it on inn. Hmmm?

I'm on my way down to go out with Hooky.

Thanks for coming in on this. No it's not autolube . I have found oil on the deck before and blamed my laggardly crew for slopping2 stroke oil about carelessly, but no this is oil from the hydraulics. The small Rams certainly have plastic bleed plugs on the side. But my attention is drawn to the sump plug as you call it. In the absence of wiser advice my best plan at the moment is to lift the motor off and see what's what. If I'm really lucky all ill need to do is tighten it with a new copper or felt washer or o ring. The plastic deck drain plug might be nothing to do with the hydraulics but just happened to be there and became the route of least resistance for escaping oil.?

This is an ebay image of one of these. The bolt hole along the bottom is just visible. Im hoping that a stud with an o ring put in this hole might fix my problem .but it begs tje following questions.... why is it ducted into the boat.? what purpose does it serve.?

On our trip last sunday A large amount of oil arrived on the deck throughthis bung hole. The bung housing is loose and the oil came round it. I had filled the reservoir in my pre trip check because it was short. It now needs more. I fear the worst ie some obscure gasket or ram seal has failed. but it might be something simpler. Before i get the spanners and hammers out, can anyone give me any pointers. or Are there any profesionals who would service this 35 year old unit?

in this pic it is fainlu visible just behind the red bilge pump cover

opposite my finger onthe bow side of the unit some kind of outlet leads forward to a plastic screw bung in the side of the drain well on my deck.

This is the tilt and trim unit on my mercury 75.

The way I see it he's using the dirt to keep his stap on.

good news bad news, endeavour3 put to sea without any scales. That was the bad news, the good news is that we didn't really miss them but had fun trying. Thanks again to Fisheagle and Mike hall who helped me with the stop over. success, we can add scad plaice and red gurnard to the species comp!

Endeavour3 with gummage, mike hall ,david cotton( non member) mike halls guest( non member)

Update. We stripped it down an reassembled it today and the problem seems to be largely gone. Sea Trial tomorrow

In the winter Graham and I changed the impellor on my old Mercury 75 2 stroke. The motor started and ran well after its winter break but then I realised that water wasn't only coming out of the pissport but in large volume out of the two large ports at the top of the leg. That's not supposed to happen is it? we did have some difficulty relocating the brass tube that takes the water up the leg and I'm thinking there is a fault here somewhere. All suggestions gratefully received.

Just picked this up,. I've got the time booked for that trip hooky...just hope the weather holds. I'd be pleased to share my inexperience with Vince if he like to come along.

Funniest thing I've ever seen!..

I know that bit of the learning curve!