Evinrude starts but shuts off right away flywheel becomes stiff

[Sdanglerz760]

My evinrude starts for a sec and shuts off flywheel becomes stiff to the point it will drain the battery noticed metal shavings coming from the bottom of the motor any ideas of whats happening any help is greatly apriciated

 

[racerone]

There must be more to this story.----A 10 HP model or 300 HP ????-------The year ??-----Did you have the motor apart ?----Please do tell the whole story !

 

[Sdanglerz760]

Sorry 1990 88hp no i dont have it apart i was fishing and it was running fine for about 4 hours and just stopped working

 

[racerone]

I just took a motor like that apart the other day.----Worst I have ever seen as far as lack of oil on the fine machinery / parts.-----Are you mixing gas / oil at 50:1 on this motor ?----How long have you owned this motor ?----Water pump checked ?

 

[Sdanglerz760]

Yes 50:1 ive had it for 4 months

 

[Sdanglerz760]

Water pump was just replaced

 

[racerone]

Compression test is to be done.-----Post your numbers.----This is starting to sound expensive.----From where I sit I can guess broken piston rings.----Any pictures of the metal bits ?

 

[Sdanglerz760]

This is some of the shavings

 

[Shawnfish80]

I see nothing as far as metal shavings in your pics, flywheel stiff??? As in its hard to turn it??? You said running fine for four hrs? So were you trolling for four hrs or going spot to spot for four hrs as in run to a spot and fish then restart and run to another spot?? Shavings coming from the bottom of the motor?? At any time did you have the cowling off?? The post above about the rings being bad could be making the flywheel(crankshaft) hard to turn but you wouldnt see shavings anywhere from that on the outside of the motor...also if you didnt have the cover off the motor the day this happened im 99.9% sure those shavings you speak of did not come from the powerhead and if somehow they did come from something on the powerhead they didnt come from inside the engine because with the cowling on they could not have got to the area you posted the pic of.. Only thing i can think of is you have some part of your mag plate rubbing under your flywheel and if so how they got to where you showed the pic is beyond me if the cowling was on the motor...did it sound different when you tried to start it back up?? Any grinding noises???

 

[Shawnfish80]

Also i would yank that vro off the motor and toss it....mix your oil and fuel yourself. I had a 91 88spl and i mixed it myself...thise vro's had issues and all it takes is that thing to stop injecting oil for a min or so before you overheat and or seize up....js

 

[Sdanglerz760]

I see nothing as far as metal shavings in your pics, flywheel stiff??? As in its hard to turn it??? You said running fine for four hrs? So were you trolling for four hrs or going spot to spot for four hrs as in run to a spot and fish then restart and run to another spot?? Shavings coming from the bottom of the motor?? At any time did you have the cowling off?? The post above about the rings being bad could be making the flywheel(crankshaft) hard to turn but you wouldnt see shavings anywhere from that on the outside of the motor...also if you didnt have the cover off the motor the day this happened im 99.9% sure those shavings you speak of did not come from the powerhead and if somehow they did come from something on the powerhead they didnt come from inside the engine because with the cowling on they could not have got to the area you posted the pic of.. Only thing i can think of is you have some part of your mag plate rubbing under your flywheel and if so how they got to where you showed the pic is beyond me if the cowling was on the motor...did it sound different when you tried to start it back up?? Any grinding noises???

I was fishing spot to spot nothing was opened up on the motor we fished with the motor off for about an hour no issuses then we tried to move and the flywheel got stuck and drained the battery never removed cowling

 

[Shawnfish80]

I was fishing spot to spot nothing was opened up on the motor we fished with the motor off for about an hour no issuses then we tried to move and the flywheel got stuck and drained the battery never removed cowling

Ok....that helps. Take the cover off and look around for metal shavings around and under the flywheel and anywhere in the lower cover or the pan as some call it. Also see if you can turn the flywheel by hand and if you can does it feel smooth or feel like somethings rubbing or a grinding feeling... Do you have a better pic of those shavings you saw?

 

[Shawnfish80]

Ok....that helps. Take the cover off and look around for metal shavings around and under the flywheel and anywhere in the lower cover or the pan as some call it. Also see if you can turn the flywheel by hand and if you can does it feel smooth or feel like somethings rubbing or a grinding feeling... Do you have a better pic of those shavings you saw?

 

[Shawnfish80]

You said the flywheel got stuck and killed your battery? As in the motor wouldnt turn over??

 

[racerone]

Shawner----The 88 HP models did not come with a VRO fuel pump.------But it could have been added later I suppose.

 

[Shawnfish80]

Your absoluteley correct...i forgot the one i had the previous owner bought the kit and put it on.. Those spl motors were omc's way of competing with mercury when they bought chrysler and turned it into force, wich were mercury's 2nd tier motors they sold. The forces had alot of mercury parts but were cheaper...the spl's didnt come with the vro and a couple other improvements that omc had come up with feom there older models therefore they were a little less expensive but still good motors, those force motors imo were pretty crappy...

 

[racerone]

The 88 SPL models were absolutely no different from the 90 HP V-4 models!!----They were marketed without oil injection and power trim / tilt and gave folks an option.-And Mercury bought FORCE ( AKA , US MARINE / CHRYSLER )

 

[ahicks]

I recently bought a motor that was "stuck". I like messing with stuff like that. Long story short, the lower unit was full of water, no oil, and the driveshaft bearings seized..... "sticking" the motor.

 

[Shawnfish80]

The 88 SPL models were absolutely no different from the 90 HP V-4 models!!----They were marketed without oil injection and power trim / tilt and gave folks an option.-And Mercury bought FORCE ( AKA , US MARINE / CHRYSLER

 

[Shawnfish80]

With no vro and power tilt and trim, that makes them different then...gave consumers a less expensive option.