Changed the water pump when I got home from work. I watched all the YT vids and did some reserach before hand. I had a lot of trouble because of the directions which were wrong. If any of you ever change waterpump kit for Johnson 150 like mine, I have some good advice. They tell you to slide the impeller down the shaft into place, then, you slide the impeller housing / cup onto the impeller. While pushing down and rotating the shaft clockwise it magically pops inside the housing cup. Well ya, it does do that, however, the impeller is larger than the cup inside the housing right? And you push down and turn the shaft so it bends the impeller and makes it pop into the housing. Well... what they dont tell you is if you do that there is a large oring that runs around the outside perimeter of the housing. When you push down and turn, the impeller rubs against the oring and makes it pop out of the groove.
So what I had to do was, install the impeller into the cup / housing and then put the oring in the housing, then slide that assembled unit on down the shaft over the key. I cant see how anyone can do it the otherway without unlodging the oring. Just some advice.
Motor is shooting water at least 10' away from the motor now so we good there. Tomorrow I will be "tidying" up around the boat checking everything for a launch. I intend on launching the boat and running the motor this weekend. After I am satisfied that all the major stuff is mechanically good, I will bring her back to the house and begin ripping out the front deck. If I manage doing all that, I will make some rough cardboard templates to bring over to the neighbors so i can find pieces large enough on his shrimp boat to cut out.
