Power Head Blues

[LAPORTE]

Hey all,  I picked up a newer boat 1999 186 SX Skeeter from one of the guys on the forum here. It's a very nice boat. I purchased it knowing the motor had issues. Being the knuckle head that I am I can fix anything.... this one might be over my head. Has anyone ever rebuilt a powerhead ? the cylinders look fine but the cranks is smoked on one of the rod journals. the questions I think I face now is do I put a new crank,rod, piston rings gaskets etc....  or a new power head from yammie or send this one out to be rebuilt. ? Please share any
ideas you may have... and yes Ill even take the smart (you know what) answers as well.

She is smoked good fishstick.... lol


Don L   

[cr]

Hey Don, one thing I thought of is fixing the damaged parts is one thing, but what caused the damage in the first place?

[champion_206]

Hey all,  I picked up a newer boat 1999 186 SX Skeeter from one of the guys on the forum here. It's a very nice boat. I purchased it knowing the motor had issues. Being the knuckle head that I am I can fix anything.... this one might be over my head. Has anyone ever rebuilt a powerhead ? the cylinders look fine but the cranks is smoked on one of the rod journals. the questions I think I face now is do I put a new crank,rod, piston rings gaskets etc....  or a new power head from yammie or send this one out to be rebuilt. ? Please share any
ideas you may have... and yes Ill even take the smart (you know what) answers as well.

She is smoked good fishstick.... lol


Don L   

Don this is Doug A , call me and I am sure we can get that fixed  I am layed off till Feb 2nd 

[SethV]

Don-

Congrats on the new boat.  Hopefully the deal was good enough to allow some serious $$ to be spent on the motor.

I have had a main bearing go bad on 2 different motors.  One time, the crank was trashed along with 2 cylinders, the other time only the bearing went and no other major damage was inflicted.  Even with the motor that had minor damage, I still honed/ringed it as PM since it was a total rebuild to swap the lower main.

The motor that was really trashed, I rebuilt myself.  Lots of work, but it saved some serious coin.  I actually had the crank rebuilt by a guy in CA for about $300 (new crank was almost 1500 for that motor) and I think about $900 in pistons, bearings, rings.

If you get a rebuilt powerhead, get a factory reman with a warranty and make sure whatever path you go, break it in to the BOOK.  No exceptions, no shortcuts!

Seth

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