Honda 2.3 broken casting shots

[dylanwinter]

Honda 2.3 broken casting - images here

I love my Honda air cooled four stroke engine - it sips petrol, starts every time and at 12kg is light and powerful

It is my back-up engine and I get it out and put it on the boat once a month and run half a tank of etrol through it

when I pulled it out last time I could see that the head was loose on the shaft - it still started but there was a slight wobble

the casting has broken where the shaft attaches to the power head.

to my knowledge the outboard has never been dropped - at least not by me and I am the only person who has been handling it for the past year.

Fortunately I had a spare shaft from the old 2.00 that I dropped in the drink seven years ago during a trip down the Thames


however, took some snaps on the little waterproof video camera of my broken casting which may be of interest

more details here

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/blogs/honda-2-3-casting-failure/

where you can also see the bolts that have gone a bit rusty - I assume they are mild steel - which is a shame if they were used to save some money as opposed to being used for good engineering reasons

I have emailed Honda via their UK website

I got a computer response but nothing more yet

by the way there is also a film of the little Honda short shaft shoving my 23 footer along

 

[ChrisE]

Thanks for posting this. I, too, have a Honda 2.3 which gets more than its fair share of abuse during the year. Still goes like a gooden tho'.

I'm amazed at the state of your kill cord, mine has reduced itself to string ....

 

[dylanwinter]

Thanks for posting this. I, too, have a Honda 2.3 which gets more than its fair share of abuse during the year. Still goes like a gooden tho'.

I'm amazed at the state of your kill cord, mine has reduced itself to string ....

probably a replacement kill chord

they go overboard more often than winch handles

I do like the egnine and it it broke again I would certainly replace it

unless the casting breaks again in the same way - in which case I would have to change

I am o lucky that I did not get rid of the old 2.0 - and that it fitted straight onto the newer power head.

 

[contessaman]

nice vid, makes me think of when I was a kid - my dad had a 21' debutante with a little petter inboard. One season the engine was u/s so for the last few months we sailed with nothing but dads little 2hp yamaha as an auxilary. In fact it was the old model that didnt even have a recoil starter on it and was rated 1.5hp. It was pretty hairy in the bristol channel I can remember sailing in to both barry and watchet harbours and we very definately needed the sails to get in between the breakwaters because the poor little outboard didnt have a chance in frisky weather the prop was out of the water most of the time. nice o/b well on your boat.
Its amazing what a little motor will do in the calm though -I have experimented with my tender engine (suzuki 2) on my boarding ladder and it moved 12500lbs displacement along very respecfully. its funny how we have come to expect an 'auxilary ' motor to be able to punch through large seas at hull speed or cheat a foul tide.

good luck with the new casting!