Hello again,
I have read Joe Reeves' post regarding setting the high and low speed needle valves on older motors like mine and it is really informative.
My question is about the high and low speed levers[plastic knobs] located on the cover plate.
I am trying to figure out where one should set them initially, realizing that they are able to be dialed from 1 to 6 on the slow[lean to rich] and the reverse number order on the high 6-1[rich to lean].
A the base of each lever is a small piece of plastic that juts out[moulded as part of the lever],[like a little "stop arm"] I asume as a reference point in adjusting rich and lean.
The cover plate at the slow speed lever has a moulded plastic stop that sticks out of the cover plate approximately in the middle at the top. The slow speed lever makes contact with this little outcropping when you turn it.
The cover plate at the high speed lever has no plastic stop that the high speed lever can come in contact with. It does not appear to me that there ever was a stop on the cover plate at this location.
The slow speed lever points in a downward direction and the high speed lever points in an upright direction.
Is there a position that I should set these two levers at initially in order to adjust while running.
I assume that in the middle would give me equal rich/lean adjustment by turning right or left according to the dials.
One thing I did have to do was tighten the packing nuts for both needles as they were loose. On my first test run with the motor on the river, the high and low levers were moving due to the vibration of the engine. After reading in the forums here I carefully tightened them as per instructions making sure that the needles themselves did not move as I tightened the nuts. This procedure really improved things for my second run on the river. I could do some adjusting on the levers and get her running pretty good.
One thing I am noticing as I run the motor is that I can troll along at quite a slow speed while fishing[for easily over an hour] but when I go to speed up to return to shore, the motor does not accelerate right away but in about 15 seconds cuts in and speeds up to top speed. It does not die out or stall, it just doesn't rev right up right away like it should. You would think perhaps it was getting too much gas all at once and taking a few seconds to adjust to the increase in fuel. Once it kicks in and speeds up it maintains this speed until I am at the dock.[runs like a champ back to shore]
Currently the setting on the slow speed dial is about 3 1/2 and on the high speed dial about 4 1/2. Based on how the motor runs overall, I don't think I am too far off the mark in my settings but then again I don't pretend to know a whole lot about these motors. I am just learning.
Do you think that running 2 oz. of Seafoam per gallon for a tank or two or longer would be a good idea?
The motor doesn't run too badly overall but I don't feel too confident about removing the carburetor and getting in over my head which in the end might end up making matters worse.
I look forward to the experts weighing in on this topic.
Once again, I read forums on here almost every day and this is indeed a wonderful site.
Recently I got a copy of a parts manual from Ebay and I have the Old Outboard Motor Book as a reference. As yet I haven't been able to secure an owner's manual but I don't know if it would have a lot of information in it.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Sean.
I have great pressure on the 2 line tank and have replaced the o rings in the line fitting[no leaks].
I have read Joe Reeves' post regarding setting the high and low speed needle valves on older motors like mine and it is really informative.
My question is about the high and low speed levers[plastic knobs] located on the cover plate.
I am trying to figure out where one should set them initially, realizing that they are able to be dialed from 1 to 6 on the slow[lean to rich] and the reverse number order on the high 6-1[rich to lean].
A the base of each lever is a small piece of plastic that juts out[moulded as part of the lever],[like a little "stop arm"] I asume as a reference point in adjusting rich and lean.
The cover plate at the slow speed lever has a moulded plastic stop that sticks out of the cover plate approximately in the middle at the top. The slow speed lever makes contact with this little outcropping when you turn it.
The cover plate at the high speed lever has no plastic stop that the high speed lever can come in contact with. It does not appear to me that there ever was a stop on the cover plate at this location.
The slow speed lever points in a downward direction and the high speed lever points in an upright direction.
Is there a position that I should set these two levers at initially in order to adjust while running.
I assume that in the middle would give me equal rich/lean adjustment by turning right or left according to the dials.
One thing I did have to do was tighten the packing nuts for both needles as they were loose. On my first test run with the motor on the river, the high and low levers were moving due to the vibration of the engine. After reading in the forums here I carefully tightened them as per instructions making sure that the needles themselves did not move as I tightened the nuts. This procedure really improved things for my second run on the river. I could do some adjusting on the levers and get her running pretty good.
One thing I am noticing as I run the motor is that I can troll along at quite a slow speed while fishing[for easily over an hour] but when I go to speed up to return to shore, the motor does not accelerate right away but in about 15 seconds cuts in and speeds up to top speed. It does not die out or stall, it just doesn't rev right up right away like it should. You would think perhaps it was getting too much gas all at once and taking a few seconds to adjust to the increase in fuel. Once it kicks in and speeds up it maintains this speed until I am at the dock.[runs like a champ back to shore]
Currently the setting on the slow speed dial is about 3 1/2 and on the high speed dial about 4 1/2. Based on how the motor runs overall, I don't think I am too far off the mark in my settings but then again I don't pretend to know a whole lot about these motors. I am just learning.
Do you think that running 2 oz. of Seafoam per gallon for a tank or two or longer would be a good idea?
The motor doesn't run too badly overall but I don't feel too confident about removing the carburetor and getting in over my head which in the end might end up making matters worse.
I look forward to the experts weighing in on this topic.
Once again, I read forums on here almost every day and this is indeed a wonderful site.
Recently I got a copy of a parts manual from Ebay and I have the Old Outboard Motor Book as a reference. As yet I haven't been able to secure an owner's manual but I don't know if it would have a lot of information in it.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Sean.
I have great pressure on the 2 line tank and have replaced the o rings in the line fitting[no leaks].
