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[RRitt]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

And why don't you just get a small inline muffler from something else (along with the stock muffler) and just face it down towards the water. It doesn't need to be in the water, just below the transom to reflect the noise away from the operator

Thanks! That is two good ideas in one and it makes a ton of sense when you look at the engine. One would have to ask "if it is that easy then why didn't the engineers design it that way?". If you look at the engine while thinking about it then the puzzle unfolds itself. Awesome. Higher noise was an engineering decision to protect users from possible muffler burns. The rear of engine has a carrying handle and the muffler is crammed into a small area safe from fingers.

TYVM. the light of understanding is on now. yes. this might just work. if it does, then i'm dumping the canoe and getting a jon. No need for paddle if i got a gas engine that can eat weeds and muck.

 

[Tom @ Buzzard Bluff]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

Something has been bothering me for the entire duration of this thread-------
surely you know that the Cajuns in the bayou country long ago created an outboard specifically for the shallow-water conditions you specify????
Try a search for 'mud motors'.

 

[mrcrabs]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

when I finally make the move to florida I'm going to get me a airboat, then powerload it behind the neighbors house's right down there on "lake walk in the water"

RRitt I have a buddy really close to you there in cape coral,

 

[RRitt]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

Something has been bothering me for the entire duration of this thread-------
surely you know that the Cajuns in the bayou country long ago created an outboard specifically for the shallow-water conditions you specify????
Try a search for 'mud motors'.

Yeah! that's the stuff. I did not realize so many people made "mud motors". I even found an awesome you tube video of some guy driving his "muddy buddy" up the crow river. At one point his rooster tail turns solid brown. I love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clADlcXLoxk

 

[RRitt]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

when I finally make the move to florida I'm going to get me a airboat, then powerload it behind the neighbors house's right down there on "lake walk in the water"

RRitt I have a buddy really close to you there in cape coral,

I'd like to see that. In some places they dig a pit in the swamp and call it a lake. In others they dig a trench and call it a canal. No matter where you go, they create dry land by piling up swamp bottom.

 

[mrcrabs]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

I have spent allot of time around lake wales Florida, my wife owns a house there on Lake Weohyakapka (walk in water) one of the neighbors there used to get his airboat out late at night and powerload the engine right behind the house...my mother in law called him a "red neck" I said hey Mable I'm a Illinois red neck he's a Florida cracker....lol...the guy was hunting for young alligator as I later found out and a heck of a nice guy...he was just real proud of his airboat I guess he gave me some alligator tale which tasted allot like "chicken"

 

[RRitt]

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I have spent allot of time around lake wales Florida, my wife owns a house there on Lake Weohyakapka (walk in water) one of the neighbors there used to get his airboat out late at night and powerload the engine right behind the house...my mother in law called him a "red neck" I said hey Mable I'm a Illinois red neck he's a Florida cracker....lol...the guy was hunting for young alligator as I later found out and a heck of a nice guy...he was just real proud of his airboat I guess he gave me some alligator tale which tasted allot like "chicken"

oh man, i just looked it up.
Is that the town that took three hurricane eyes about six years ago? Your wife must have been worried sick. Your mother in law may have been right. Lake Wales is well north of the Everglades.

 

[mrcrabs]

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yep thats the place...I got arrested for kicking the excon contractors butt that Mable hired and had to pay 1500 to the law firm of Allen & Echemendia in lakeland to get me out of it...I highly recommend Bill Allen as criminal defense attorney. State of Florida dropped the charges completely after they saw the contractors rap sheet.

 

[reelfishin]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

A buddy of mine took the leg of an old air cooled outboard and custom mounted his own 6.5hp Briggs motor off of a pressure washer he had let freeze up over the winter.
The first test run was loud, but he took a long skinny thread in muffler and the glass pack tailpipe off of a VW bus and ran that downward. That thing was almost silent after that.
His homemade rig worked pretty well, although it cosmetically challenged to say the least, it worked well for being the product of a Friday night and a case of beer.
It lasted him a few seasons duck hunting, until he finally beat up the lower unit so bad he had to start over. His creation would have been a lot better if he had come up with a better way to attach the crankshaft to the driveshaft other than just welding the two together. A good rubber coupling in there would have done wonders for vibration control.

 

[boobie]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

Anybody here know what the FOUR things are that are required to make an internal combustion engine run ????

 

[RRitt]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

Anybody here know what the FOUR things are that are required to make an internal combustion engine run ????

fuel, oxygen, electricity, & a working engine.

 

[Tom @ Buzzard Bluff]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

Anybody here know what the FOUR things are that are required to make an internal combustion engine run ????

1 A fuel/air mixture of @ 15 parts air to 1 part fuel

2 Ignition---at the proper time

3 Compression sufficient to encourage combustion

4 Profanity

 

[Howard Sterndrive]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

I'm thinking the 4th thing is cranking to start the process....

Although I've seen a hot engine start with just a spark in a cyl just ATDC...

 

[boobie]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

How about ?

1- Fuel

2- Ignition

3-compression

4- And EXHAUST. If you can't get out what goes in, the mtr will never run.

I rest my case.

 

[SeaKaye12]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

Briggs and Stratton **COULD** make a decent outboard. Whether or not they are doing so now is a matter of opinion.

Here's what aftermarket companies manage to make out of one of their engines....

 

[mrcrabs]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

I think "opinion" that they do have a decent little outboard, the engine is heavy compared to a little Eska and less noisy, would be nice if they could sqeeze another 2-3hp out of that block...might make that extra weight worth the money, but in my "opinion" it's just B&S take on a old design...Eska.
I believe they will be the Eska of the future, loved by some and hated by others.

 

[boobie]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

Gotta remember what " Opinion" is like.

 

[mrcrabs]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

and your point is what boobie?

 

[boobie]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

Just got to remember that old saying about "opinions".

 

[mrcrabs]

Re: Briggs & Stratton 5hp - Craigs List AD

right