Help Evinrude Help with 1985 Evinrude 235 2.6 XP

[perfmarine1]

Also if you want to try and start it get a control box and battery cables hooked up would not try it without. If the motor runs I would highly recommend putting a water pump on it and removing the vro system unless you know the vro system is new

[dreamerdfl]

Awesome...you all are a great help!! Thank you!

Don

I see The Telltale fitting is broken on the back of the motor and the water hose is right there with part of the fitting busted in it you'll need to fix that. According to your model number it's an 86 2.6 XP but the cover is wrong, serial number is STL that makes it XP if I'm seeing that correctly. Anythink you need to know about these motors I can help you with I run two of them on a cat rebuild them several times have done hundreds of them just let me know if there's anything you need to know about that motor.

[dreamerdfl]

I have had a couple Marine Mechanics come take a look at it...the first was not much help as he came with pretty much nothing regarding tools...$100/30 minutes of scratching his head. Yesterday, a very good Mechanic arrived with a truck full of anything we could need and 50 years of experience...
Great guy, very very knowledgeable...He did get the motor running and it sounded ok. Did compression and 1 cylinder was bad. Pulled head off and two cylinders were scored so on to another motor...only charged me $100 for what I felt was a lot of work and great service., (see details below).disappointed as I wanted to run the classic Evinrude power.

So, I have a 20" lower unit and mid, and all other parts in non-saltwater used motor. Trim and Tilt, Heads, rebuilt carbs, stainless prop etc. etc. Any idea what they might be worth to the right people? I will remove and ship anywhere...Need to put some money together to put towards another motor.

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Awesome...you all are a great help!! Thank you!

Don

[22R]

Nice looking ole Evinrude. Was hoping you could get it going.

22R

[dreamerdfl]

As was I. I was looking forward to running something different...have found another...84 235 that looks to be in really good condition. Going to go take a look at it. thank you for everyone's help.

Nice looking ole Evinrude. Was hoping you could get it going.

22R

[97mirage]

Dreamer: Post pics of the ‘84 you’re looking at or possibly buying. I hope you find it to be a good motor. I have an ‘84 235 too. I love these old OMC motors. I haven’t had a chance to run mine yet as I am finishing a complete restoration of a 1979 Allison GT-20 with the ‘84 235 OMC engine. Hopefully, it’ll be all done this summer.

[dreamerdfl]

I will post some pictures soon...on Facebook marketplace for $1500.00. Figure if I bought this one, i would have a lot of parts to pull from off the motor I have now should something break.

Dreamer: Post pics of the ‘84 you’re looking at or possibly buying. I hope you find it to be a good motor. I have an ‘84 235 too. I love these old OMC motors. I haven’t had a chance to run mine yet as I am finishing a complete restoration of a 1979 Allison GT-20 with the ‘84 235 OMC engine. Hopefully, it’ll be all done this summer.

[dreamerdfl]

[97mirage]

Looking good. Nice pics. Glad I’m not the only one that likes the old stuff!

[dreamerdfl]

Agree, I love the way these motors looked. Hopefully will soon be on my 1986 Baja 220 Sport that I am restoring.

Looking good. Nice pics. Glad I’m not the only one that likes the old stuff!

[89LASER]

The original motor for your boat is a 20" shaft, the second one is a 25" shaft. You might want to swap the power heads so you can run the 20" shaft on your boat.

[dreamerdfl]

Very good idea...was wondering about that. How about a Bobs nose cone/low water pickup...what do those cost to install?

The original motor for your boat is a 20" shaft, the second one is a 25" shaft. You might want to swap the power heads so you can run the 20" shaft on your boat.

[CVX20SPRINT]

Good plan buying one the same.Some of the electronics on these get expensive.I'm running an 89 Evinrude 200 XP that the reg/rec was smoked on and I think I smoked it again late last summer before I figured out the ign switch was bad.I think I payed over $300 for the part.Water cooled regulators suck IMHO.

[dreamerdfl]

Yes, the motor does run despite the 2 bad cylinders so there are many parts I can use.

Good plan buying one the same.Some of the electronics on these get expensive.I'm running an 89 Evinrude 200 XP that the reg/rec was smoked on and I think I smoked it again late last summer before I figured out the ign switch was bad.I think I payed over $300 for the part.Water cooled regulators suck IMHO.

[keefallan]

You need to swap over the heads, the carbs, all the electronics. Even though they are both 235's, the internals are different. The intake needs to be swapped too if you want the composite reeds off of it. Hot rod 235 vs a stocker. Jetting is way different too. Can you post a picture or two of the bad block with the inspection covers off? The xp electrics are better.......speaking from the place of making more power. The main jets will need to be changed though..............since that 235 doesn't share the same (more) porting of the xp motor. I say this is because those heads on the bad motor raise compression substantially!! It will need more fuel. But it wont need all the fuel that those mains will be letting in.

The bottom line is, you want all the goodies off of the other motor. Keep it for parts. They are hard to find and getting harder. I am speaking from experience. I am dying to find a 235 xp. They are rare and getting rarer. Sell all the 25 inch stuff.

Truth be told, you should get that motor bored and rebuild it. They are factory ported to make much more power than what that other motor is. The difference is night and day in power between the two. JMHO. However, I don't know if it has stock bores or has been redone b4.