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As I mentioned in my introduction I bought a Bearcat April 5th at the Portland swapmeet. Thought my boat that's been sitting unused for 16 yrs could use this.
I needed a place to mount it to see how it would run so I moved over the Johnson and stuck it on the boat.
The engine was stuck when I bought it and after freeing it up I proceeded with firing it up. While it sounded good but it has compression issues and as Bill Roberts informed me the engine was a 1970 but someone had replaced the block with an early Homelite. Enter Engine #2, I picked this one up April 19th, Also a 1970 with the correct F series block which is what I was after. This engine had been worked on about 4 yrs ago by Ed Ewing and had the Ed Ewing blue paint which I've been removing. Check out the wiring mess!
Wiring removed and working the paint removal.
Cleanup of the wiring and a few other items to repair, the block plate needed a new gasket.
When I bought engine #2 it came with a '61 shortshaft parts engine. This engine rolled through but #3 cylinder has a bad exhaust valve.
Engine #1 and #3 will eventually come apart to make one good engine. While #1 was on the boat I discovered another problem, my transom had rotted after all the years of sitting, CRAP! I really needed this.
After a few days of work, the new wood is installed, coated with West System Epoxy.
Transom completed!
Now back to the Bearcat, I'll mount it up Sunday, this will be engine #2 which seems to run good, has even compression in all four cylinders and has the Pertronix electronic ignition installed. I heard it run before I bought it and it seemed like it ran decent, also checked compression before handing over the cash. Yep I was just going to toss #1 Bearcat on the back and take the boat out, yeah, sure thing!!!
I needed a place to mount it to see how it would run so I moved over the Johnson and stuck it on the boat.
The engine was stuck when I bought it and after freeing it up I proceeded with firing it up. While it sounded good but it has compression issues and as Bill Roberts informed me the engine was a 1970 but someone had replaced the block with an early Homelite. Enter Engine #2, I picked this one up April 19th, Also a 1970 with the correct F series block which is what I was after. This engine had been worked on about 4 yrs ago by Ed Ewing and had the Ed Ewing blue paint which I've been removing. Check out the wiring mess!
Wiring removed and working the paint removal.
Cleanup of the wiring and a few other items to repair, the block plate needed a new gasket.
When I bought engine #2 it came with a '61 shortshaft parts engine. This engine rolled through but #3 cylinder has a bad exhaust valve.
Engine #1 and #3 will eventually come apart to make one good engine. While #1 was on the boat I discovered another problem, my transom had rotted after all the years of sitting, CRAP! I really needed this.
After a few days of work, the new wood is installed, coated with West System Epoxy.
Transom completed!
Now back to the Bearcat, I'll mount it up Sunday, this will be engine #2 which seems to run good, has even compression in all four cylinders and has the Pertronix electronic ignition installed. I heard it run before I bought it and it seemed like it ran decent, also checked compression before handing over the cash. Yep I was just going to toss #1 Bearcat on the back and take the boat out, yeah, sure thing!!!
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