river warrior
Active member
I've been rebuilding this motor for some time now and had everything good to go or at least I thought I did. The motor ran great with muffs and great in the lake just had some minor carb adjustment problems. I took the carb apart and cleaned it and when I did my next Ops check there wasn't any water coming out of the exhaust tube on the upper backside of the motor leg. In the past their was always water coming from this tube. I have gone through as much of the cooling system as I can without taking apart the power head. Everything looks great impeller is new and water pump is connected to the water line. The thermostat not there its just a empty socket where it should be and I'm not sure how long the motor has been running without it. I've done a lot of reading on forums and it's kinda confusing. The thermostat needs to be there but it missing shouldn't stop my cooling indication. I have also read that some of these old motors don't have tell tales. I'm wondering if mine might be one of those.