Marin wrote:
Yes, it's a smart thing to do. We keep a spare belt on each engine with the coolant hose pre-threaded through it. We don't have it mounted like the photo, however. Our spare belts are brought back alongside the engine and wire-tied to the lift ring on the exhaust manifold.
Someday when you get a chance could you snap a pic?* Like to see how that arrangement looks.* JohnP
**********Is that to keep the acid rain off?* Or preventing rust in general?* JohnPFF wrote:
When storing spares , be sure to put oil filters and fuel filters in an air tight bag.
I missed this when I responded to your other thread.* I think its a really good idea.*JohnP wrote:
Is it a good idea to store a spare belt on engine for a FL120?
JohnP wrote:
Someday when you get a chance could you snap a pic?* Like to see how that arrangement looks.
What design flaw..............GonzoF1 wrote:
Wow... That's quite a design flaw with those engines.
What design flaw..............hollywood8118 wrote:
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GonzoF1 wrote:
Wow... That's quite a design flaw with those engines.
Nobody is perfect and that is a bad design plain and simple no matter where it comes from. "Couch engineering" at it's best.* We are forced to store a belt in place in very bad conditions for storage of a rubber product...in excessive heat and folded to take a set.JohnP wrote:
All the thousands of Lehmans from Linden NEW JERSEY propelling our boats and its not good enough!** JohnP
1.* No. Our engines had about 2,000 hours on them when we discovered the cracked drive tang on the port coupler.* The starboard coupler was fine.* I don't think the problem has anything to do with bearing wear, it's the cracking of the drive tang that drives the pump that's the problem.JohnP wrote:
1. Did Bob Smith give any idea as to how many hours before the original drive bearings become worn enough to cause coupler failure.* My engine has 1650hours.
2. Back before Lehman went out of production, what was the outcome of the recall?* I doubt if they gave everyone Johnson Pumps.* How did they satisfy their customers when lehman was still in business?
1.* Not necessarily.* Given the average annual use of recreaetional boats which seems to vary from 50 to 100 hours a year, it could take well over 20 years for the problem to become frequent enough to be noiticeable.* Like I said, we had a cracking drive tang on one coupler but the other coupler was fine.* I have no idea what contributes to the cracking.* Harmonic vibration, perhaps?* This could explain why it happens on some engines and not on others* with the same amount of time on them.* Every engine even of the same type is a bit different in some way or another.JohnP wrote:
1.* It just seems that from the start in the 1960s to the time my engine was built 1982, they had 20 plus years and lots of engine hours to know they had a problem.
2.* You think somewhere along the line they would have made a better pump drive tang.