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05-28-2008, 07:58 PM #1
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carnage from last week...
we were in Destin last week on vacation. about two hours into the 3rd day of jumping surf my motor started clanking very loudly. headed back to the boat ramp near the bridge and loaded up on the trailer. pulled the seat and found a fine dust of aluminum in the bottom of the hull. figuring that was a bad sign (along with the hole in the lower cases) i disconnected the battery and called it quits. finally had a chance last night to take the motor apart and found a broken RAVE blade (on the pto side where the oil leak was) and the front bearing on the counter balancer shaft got destroyed. not sure how, but the crankshaft and the top half of the motor seems ok. so it's not a total loss...anyway, here's a few pictures...
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05-28-2008, 10:24 PM #2
I'm no expert, not even close. But was there supposed to be some oil in the counterbalance shaft?
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05-28-2008, 10:38 PM #3
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yep, 30 ml of 30w oil. i drained and filled it up before riding on Monday, not sure where it went...i'm guessing a bad seal causing it to got sucked up into the combustion chambers and burned? cause there was no oil in the hull, just water and aluminum dust...as for the RAVE blade, metal fatigue or stress broke it?
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05-28-2008, 10:50 PM #4
That sucks, good luck with the rebuild.
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