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My 1990 Johnson 88 started skipping under load so I assumed the old stainless steel propeller needed to be re-hubbed: 50$ later I am out for a ride with my freshly machined propeller and everything stopped as the engine raced into neutral (even the water pump quit).
I got it to the Kilkenny Marina via the kind folk at SeaTow and when I got it home I pulled the foot to find that the top of the drive shaft was completely rounded. I have attached a picture of it. Any advice is coveted. How do I best determine if the base of the crankshaft that the drive shaft plugs into is also rounded off and bad without buying a new shaft and testing it (and ideally without embarking on the two-person wrestling-struggle of to trying to pull the head off the engine without a hoist)? Any recommended tricks are coveted.
Is my old Ashcraft a pending donation/tax exemption? The Johnson 88 sits on a 1979 17.5' Ashcraft and while old, it worked wonderfully before this mishap. I hate to see it go but the kids will miss it more because nearly every time I planned to fish, I ended up taking them out instead.
I got it to the Kilkenny Marina via the kind folk at SeaTow and when I got it home I pulled the foot to find that the top of the drive shaft was completely rounded. I have attached a picture of it. Any advice is coveted. How do I best determine if the base of the crankshaft that the drive shaft plugs into is also rounded off and bad without buying a new shaft and testing it (and ideally without embarking on the two-person wrestling-struggle of to trying to pull the head off the engine without a hoist)? Any recommended tricks are coveted.
Is my old Ashcraft a pending donation/tax exemption? The Johnson 88 sits on a 1979 17.5' Ashcraft and while old, it worked wonderfully before this mishap. I hate to see it go but the kids will miss it more because nearly every time I planned to fish, I ended up taking them out instead.
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