Stones in Shaft- Sank my Outboard!!

[Daesal]

Sorry for the length of time in update. Just in case it is helpful to anyone else here is what was the trouble. There was a slight leak in the exhaust. The exhaust fumes were circulating in the cowl. The return fumes were shutting the engine down. Cowl off, runs fine. Cowl on stops. Soloution. Repair exhaust. Everything good again. Hope this helps.And thank you everyone for their help in getting it running again.

 

[sogood]

Happy to hear of your positive outcome and thanks for the update. It all adds to the store of knowledge on here.

 

[BruceK]

Happy to hear of your positive outcome and thanks for the update. It all adds to the store of knowledge on here.

Hear! Hear!

As an aside this is where small two strokes really have the upper hand. When you cant carry the tender with outboard for whatever reason, and have to remove it, the transfer from tender onto the swimplatform in anything but calm seas carries the risk of dropping it. In my case it's the tender being sucked under a rising swim platform only to be slammed as the swim platform descends unbalancing one during the transfer. My old 8hp saw water on numerous occasions in it's long life although never a mud bottom (monkey wont let go!). Plug, out, drain carb from float bowl drain screw. ACF 50 liberally all over, plug back in. Squirt some fuel into the open choke, and away she went. Smoked like a dog for a few seconds and then operated as normal. I've since downgraded to a diddy 3hp 2 stroke which is so light it doesn't unbalance me and can be raised with the tender if necessary.

First start after a dunking