Suzuki 2hp outboard cooling

[DoubleEnder]

I have just bought a 2hp Suzuki 2 stroke outboard nice and cheap on ebay. Starts easily, runs nicely, lightweight and simple, no neutral/gearshift....she starts, you go. Lovely. But - very very little water coming out of the telltale, just a very fine spray/steam and some exhaust gas. Any ideas? The impeller is new....Even if I rev it up theres not much water coming out /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[davidwf]

Thats Ok my suzuki 2 does the same it has from new. Very little water comes out.

No steam though. I have had mine overheat and seize due to salt in the waterways around the cylinder, easy to take head off and clean them out with a length of wire. Once cooled down engine turned over fine after the seizure.

 

[Dipper]

My Suzuki 2.2 is the same. You will need to make sure the telltale holes don't salt up as they are very small. I usually carry a short length of fine wire in case they need unblocking.

 

[JimC]

With this engine you never get more than a fine spray coming out of the holes on the back of the outboard leg. They are just tell-tales - the bulk of the water goes straight down the leg.

 

[VicS]

[ QUOTE ]
They are just tell-tales

[/ QUOTE ] They are really just exhaust relief holes. Just a little water is carried out by the exhaust gases exiting that way.

The engine does not have what is normlly called a telltale or "pee hole" which would produce a constant jet of water.

Without a pee hole, or even with one, one must keep an eye open for an absence of water from the relief hole and or apearance of steam. Either indicates a problem.

 

[Dipper]

I didn't realise that either. Thanks.

 

[Searush]

They are very robust little engines. My first was dropped overboard, dried out & restarted. It ran for years after, but needed the points replacing when they fell to bits. Eventually, it seized one winter & I got another. Several years later I gave it to a pal, who stripped it, whacked the piston free with a lump of wood & is still using it today.