Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Wisconsin Motor...Take 2

So the Wisconsin motor that Lynn and I rebuilt the week prior ended up spinning a bearing again. I guess that's what you get or a cheap/quick rebuild job. But the good this is it lasted long enough for the owner to take care of a few customers so he wasn't in a bind for time. So this time we pulled the bad motor out and stripped it down. The crank was ruined from the excessive heat but luckily the crank in the spar block looked good so we mic'ed it and it was still in good shape. So we moved all the components from the bad block over and rebuilt the motor on the spar block. Once it was all back together we tested it out and it all ran great. So we ran it at several different throttle positions for about 2/3 of the day to break it in and then returned it to the owner. So far its been holding up well under heavy use.

1 comment:

  1. Don't you just love it when someone want's to cheap out on a project and it comes back. Even when it's not you fault it still frustrates me.
    We need to go get a beer soon!

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