40 hp finally starts

Jan 10, 2004 5 Replies
M

trying to get my 40 hp going and today was the day. I posted here before under "40 hp won't start" a couple of wks ago. Several people responded to my post and I thank you. The reason why it wasn't starting was because it was 180 degrees out. I switched around spark plug wire and it fired right up. Ran it for a couple of minutes and then.........oil started running out of in front of engine from the clutch area.......I looked up and noticed that the oil light was now on so I immediately shut it down...................any thoughts on this???? All new everything.........hhhhhelp please.



Mike


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M

this would be an indicationof a leak...............

( sorry. Couldn;t help myself.)

Likely that you have a bad oil cooler seal, and will need to remove the shroud , at the very least, and put new seals in.

It could be worse than this, but this is the quickest answer to that condition.

There is the possibility that you have a huge leak in the oil cooler itself, or something along that line of issue.............take it down and see what's happening.

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Thanks for the reply. I went out looking to see where the oil was coming from and it didn't appear to be coming from the oil cooler. I then got looking through my boxes of parts and I think I found my front seal!!!! O MY GOD.... you guys are going to kick me off this newsgroup! I must have overlooked it when I was putting my brand new 40hp motor togeather. well....................I will pull engine and put that baby in.......hopefully I didn't tear to many things up.....

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Damn Mike...................You Are so fired!

Cardinal sin man!..................Jan has probably done the same thing too, so don't feel too bad.................LOL

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Well, if you have one more slip-up, we might ask that you ask all further questions for the next two weeks in the watercooled newsgroup.

Also, no phone or TV privileges for a week. ;-)

Malcolm '69 Beetle (Gus)

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