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Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Jun 29, 2004
- Messages
- 368
Good morning guys,
Sad story, I loaned by 1978 9.9 evinrude to a buddy. He had it for two days. He was using it in salt water and dicided to do me a favor and run fresh water thru it to flush the salt when it came back. The problem is he did not turn the hose on when he fired it up. The phone rang so he was not paying attention and you can figure the rest.
When I got it back one cylinder would not fire. Did compression test, bottom hole 90 psi, top hole 60. I pulled it apart last nite, bottom hole shows a little pick up on piston and a pretty good wall, upper hole is shot, new piston and bore job required.
Here is the question. Would you guys put $400 to $500 in this one or would you buy a new unit? I found a sale at Ed's Marine in VA for $1700 for new unit. What do you think? I am going for some R&R in a week and a half and need the motor for fishing and crabing. I can most likely have the old repaired by then but don't know if it is worth it.
Paul
Sad story, I loaned by 1978 9.9 evinrude to a buddy. He had it for two days. He was using it in salt water and dicided to do me a favor and run fresh water thru it to flush the salt when it came back. The problem is he did not turn the hose on when he fired it up. The phone rang so he was not paying attention and you can figure the rest.
When I got it back one cylinder would not fire. Did compression test, bottom hole 90 psi, top hole 60. I pulled it apart last nite, bottom hole shows a little pick up on piston and a pretty good wall, upper hole is shot, new piston and bore job required.
Here is the question. Would you guys put $400 to $500 in this one or would you buy a new unit? I found a sale at Ed's Marine in VA for $1700 for new unit. What do you think? I am going for some R&R in a week and a half and need the motor for fishing and crabing. I can most likely have the old repaired by then but don't know if it is worth it.
Paul
