video of water spitting on 70's 85 hp

[pmosier]

I put a new impeller in, seems to be doing fine, but my friend says it's not working correctly. Just thought I'd see if anyone would send a little video of what one looks like. Personally I think he's crazy but I sure dont want to blow mine up. So....yes I ask stupid questions.
Pat
you can email to pat@affordenergy.com any size video.
Thank you

 

[MichelleBedore]

Re: video of water spitting on 70's 85 hp

Hi. You can upload the video onto youtube (or photobucket), then post the link to the video here.. I did that to let ppl hear how my outboard sounded. I zoomed in on the spitters to show how much water was coming out after a brand new water pump and impeller was put in, and the carbs freshly rebuilt. I'll bet you will get more responses to your query if you post a direct video link. BTW, many models of the Johnsons (mine is a '71 100 hp) don't spit a whole lot out when idling, certainly not like a water fountain's solid stream---more like a shower head on low. Check out my video where I zoom in on the spitters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNAQX95jumg

Hope this helps.

 

[jtexas]

Re: video of water spitting on 70's 85 hp

if we email our answers to you, the next guy with the same question won't be able to find it.

Those two holes beneath the powerhead on the aft side of the engine are "exhaust relief ports". When the lower unit is submerged, backpressure on the underwater exhaust makes starting and idling difficult; those ports are there to ease the pressure. Running on the muffs, no pressure in the exhaust tube, you might not ever see water coming out there. Or it might spit a little like in Michelle's video.

The 85hp evinrudes built in '78, '79 and '80 have an overboard indicator (aka telltale or pee stream), a water outlet on the lower starboard cowl, that shoots out a stream of water to let you know the water pump is pumping. If it's an earlier model it doesn't have one, which might be fooling your friend.

Other hand, if it does have a telltale and water isn't shooting out of it at all times when the motor's running, then somethings gone horribly wrong.