project franken-rude kicks off!

[stackz]

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ok, well I guess its crunch time before I get any more involved in this thing...

so far I've around $125 in getting the title for the engine and $80 for getting the spare longblock. not bad, I can probably still break even selling off parts that are good off everything as of right now.

I finally got the mid housing off today. I managed to bear hug the engine on the stand and get it to rotate left/right fully. that way I could get on the two front bolts with an 11mm wrench (after thinking of heat bending a wrench but didnt do that lol). anyway, both bolt heads ripped off. popped the housing off and then got to work on the inner housing.

all 5 bolt heads ripped off for it too before it came off. :facepalm:

now I'm looking at this far inner housing, looks like a stalagtite from what appears to be electrolysis. I mean it looks like its taken a beating from salt water...cant be a factory casting can it?

anyway, while trying to get it off I broke a piece of it off but with all the broken bolts and corrosion looks like a miracle to get it off. I mean I've dealt with worse but it was on a really rare ford engine that was worth $$$ even all broken up. this is just an 84 evinrude lol.

I'm 50/50 on abandoning and getting my money back out of it parting it on ebay...I'll cut the cover pan up to get at the engine long block so I can pop it open and salvage what I can...or hell, I dunno at this point.

what say you? I can just imagine how fun it would be to drill/tap this many broken off stainless bolts...

 

[stackz]

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ok, well I had just enough wd40 last week to barely get some on the suspect threads, didnt really think much would happen but worth a shot. left it all week and while doing laundry I decided to take a look. its like a miracle to be honest. I walk out and look at it and the power head had popped loose about 1/4" at the rear from the mid section. couldnt believe it. I started whacking again at the front and back and it just sorta popped loose. went back inside and changed into my work clothes and manhandled the powerhead off.

then I finally got a good look at the mid section of this thing. wow, thats nasty.

anyway, after looking it over real good I see two things of concern. first, what is this random wire? it looks like a powerhead to mid section ground of some sort that has long since rotted apart. even if I fixed it with a new wire I have no idea how I'd even be able to get in there to re-attach it properly? well, that remains to be seen. probably easier when everything is cleaned properly and I can attach the powerhead to the pan before the middle portion goes on.

I know this looks bad, I'm just hoping I can find all the parts needed to repair this when the time comes. but seriously, just how bad is this? do you think it wallowed out the bores on the aluminum casing?

started tearing down the powerhead and got this far before scratching my head. the intake track basically covers half the crankcase bolts...um, I was always taught you dont use universals to tighten to torque-spec critical bolts but I dont see how this can be done otherwise? other reason I stopped is I'm deciding whether to continue and bugspray up (mosquitos are really bad right now) or clean up and go hit up the bar haha.

oh yeah, how do you get the shift cables off if the backside stud is just spinning? I think I can get a tiny vicegrip on it but not sure and the less I break, the less I have to replace you know...

 

[Haffiman]

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That hammer on the picture looks far to small for this project!!!!

 

[stackz]

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oh holy crap. trying to get the flywheel off so I can get the last couple bolts to separate the cases and it will NOT budge! not at all.

I've got so much torque on the puller that I cant screw it in anymore by hand. beat on the flywheel and it still wouldnt budge! I just left it with the pressure applied and sprayed some pb blaster in it hoping it'll pop overnight but my god man is that thing on there.

there's no weird magical clip somewhere I'm not seeing is there?

 

[imported_bowfisher]

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I once had the same problem on an older 33hp Evinrude. After alot of cussing I found some smart guy at some point had welded a nice bead permanantly attaching the flywheel to the crank. Hope this isnt the case here. In all actuallity the PB should do the job, sometimes they can be a bear to get off.

Good luck! Keep the pics coming!

 

[Mas]

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Keep going...but at some point, your fianc? will make you choose between her or the motor if she's smart!

Mas

 

[stackz]

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ok, well its been a week and I'm still stuck where I'm at with the flywheel.

I've slowly added more tension as I could but its to the point the bolts are starting to bend which tells me they are about to pull the threads out of the flywheel itself.

any options? I've added pb blaster daily hoping it would creep in and help it let go to no avail. I'm kinda scared to add heat thinking I'll just burn something up behind the flywheel...or worse yet, if the flywheel is put together like a car engines harmonic balancer...I'll melt that portion.

what to do?

 

[j_k_bisson]

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Tap/hit the fly wheel with a rubber dead blow mallet while under tension. This should normally dislodge the tapered holding force. Watch out it will pop/fly. Make sure you have the nut still on the crank shaft. It only needs to be loosened a couple threads. That way when the flywheel breaks away it will not go flying.......

 

[stackz]

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I actually already tore my rubber mallet up from banging on the flywheel....and gave myself a blister on my hand too. that should tell you how many times and how hard I've been banging on it lol.

 

[Mas]

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Are you hitting the flywheel...or the puller's tension bolt? You need to rap on the tension bolt.

Mas