Good morning, I bought this old boat last September, motor is J70TLESB, 1990 Johnson 70 hp
This old thing runs great! I drove it around in the month of September and it really did well for an old motor. Plenty of water coming from the tell tale.
At the end of the year I attempted to run anti-freeze through it using the bucket gravity method (although I had read somewhere it is not so important to use anti-freeze to winterize due to the fact that the motor drains itself when put in the upright position) If I remember correctly it didn't go that well, nothing was exiting the tell tale as I attempted to run anti-freeze through, while injecting some fogging oil into the carbs. It did however drink a bit of the juice so I left it at that for the winter.
I hooked it up to my garden hose this morning and it fired up right away. It ran for about 30 secs or more when I realized no water coming from the tell tale
I shut the motor off and made sure my hose and fittings where free of debris, fired it up again, let it run for aprox 30 seconds and no water, how ever I did notice a small amount of smoke coming from my pee tube(so it's not clogged) maybe a bad thing? I repeated this a couple more times starting and stopping it worried that it might overheat if I continued, I assume the smoke from the pee hole has to do with the fogging oil cause there was a heck of a lot of smoke when the motor started up
From what I have read, sounds like I might need a water pump rebuild kit, I would like to get the thoughts of a knowledgeable person(s), as I am no outboard specialist.
Thank you Rick
This old thing runs great! I drove it around in the month of September and it really did well for an old motor. Plenty of water coming from the tell tale.
At the end of the year I attempted to run anti-freeze through it using the bucket gravity method (although I had read somewhere it is not so important to use anti-freeze to winterize due to the fact that the motor drains itself when put in the upright position) If I remember correctly it didn't go that well, nothing was exiting the tell tale as I attempted to run anti-freeze through, while injecting some fogging oil into the carbs. It did however drink a bit of the juice so I left it at that for the winter.
I hooked it up to my garden hose this morning and it fired up right away. It ran for about 30 secs or more when I realized no water coming from the tell tale
I shut the motor off and made sure my hose and fittings where free of debris, fired it up again, let it run for aprox 30 seconds and no water, how ever I did notice a small amount of smoke coming from my pee tube(so it's not clogged) maybe a bad thing? I repeated this a couple more times starting and stopping it worried that it might overheat if I continued, I assume the smoke from the pee hole has to do with the fogging oil cause there was a heck of a lot of smoke when the motor started up
From what I have read, sounds like I might need a water pump rebuild kit, I would like to get the thoughts of a knowledgeable person(s), as I am no outboard specialist.
Thank you Rick
