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Thread: blown head gasket
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09-22-2013, 05:17 PM #1
blown head gasket
was out sat. evening when i noticed i was down on power.limped back to ramp and got my rig home for further inspection.after doing a comp. test,i found that the middle cyl.,port side was down to 60psi i pulled the head to find a bad head gasket.just wanted to know if anybody has has one blow like this and why.to further add insult to injury,the ammeter was showing that the system was not charging the battery either,i know the two probably arent related but thought tit was worth mention.
1991 skeeter 175
150 johnny crossflow,6in jackplate @ 3in below the pad
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09-22-2013, 05:39 PM #2
They might be related..... Check the flatness of the head and deck before you put a new gasket on..... As for the charging.. the blown gasket could have allowed hot exhaust gases into the cooling system leaving the water-cooled voltage regulator in an air bubble allowing it to overheat and fry................
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09-22-2013, 06:17 PM #3
that makes sense.i am on the way out to the shop now to pull the fly wheel.is there any way to bench test the regulator?the tach stopped working a while back so i already suspected the regulator was going bad anway,it appears to be the original one!
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09-22-2013, 06:21 PM #4
Can you tell what brand of gasket that is?
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09-22-2013, 06:24 PM #5
The manual basically says to check the Stator and if it checks out, condemn the regulator..............
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09-22-2013, 07:37 PM #6
cant tell the gasket type,but it does have "this side towards exhaust" with an arrow printed on it.
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09-22-2013, 07:42 PM #7
There were some cheap gaskets for mercs out there not sure about OMC.Cant remember the name!
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09-22-2013, 08:12 PM #8
That gasket looks oem
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10-01-2013, 08:20 PM #10
all is well with my skeeter now!head gasket is on,has been run a couple of times and re torqued.i also replaced the regulator/rectifier with a new OMC unit and it works great(and the tach works again too!)thanks for everyones input,it really helped alot!