Blown Powerhead??? on 1995 200 Vindicator

I blew my #2 cylinder on the port side of my 1995 200hp Evinrude Vindicator and was wondering what some of my options are. I was wondering if I could rebuild the powerhead or if I have to swap it out.

Depends on how bad it got it... You can have a new sleeve put in the one hole, then build it if it is bad, or if not, maybe it will clean up by boring it.... http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/praying.gif

Here is a picture of the cylinder. I'm going to tear it apart tommoro and see if the crank is bad. It looks like a crank bearing was bouncing around in the cylinder. [IMG][/IMG] http://groups.msn.com/ZZZZZZZP...oID=1




Modified by akita8 at 11:05 PM 4/21/2007

Looks like you lost the locator pin. Looks very rebuildable to me. You might even be able to hone the damage out of the sleeve. Its hard to tell from the pics but that one transfer port looks like it might have got a chip out of it. Since it was on #2 is there any damage on 4 or 6? The head you may be able sand it a little (like with wet 1500) but 3L heads are on ebay all the time. Someone will correct me here but I think you need 92-95 heads, I'm not sure if 96 or new will work.

There is some damage on the transfer port that I'm hoping can be machined out. I have not had a chance to look at the other cylinders. I'm heading to the garage to pull the powerhead now.
Thanks for the input.

You have to tear it down to hone or bore anyway, if it is too bad re-sleeve it and put in standard bore piston set, hone all the cylinders and re-ring. Put an .002 oversize HS oriface in #2 carb and upgrade the carb bowl drains to the new style.

All the other cylinders look great (can still see the hone marks) except the one that blew. I don't think there is any marine machine shops in Nevada. Can any machine shop resleeve the cylinder? If not can anyone reccomend a machine shop I can ship it to. Should I put new pistons in all the way around or just rering them?

I'd rering and hone all the cylinders. It's not much more ($10 for rings and $10 to hone per hole) and you have a like new motor. You can reuse the other pistons.

if you know exactly what you need and how it is to be done napa machine shops can do it

I have a 95 200 vindicator also.... Its in the shop right now... It runs excellent... but when you put it in to gear, it wants to die... but you can bump the choke and get it up to about 1000rpm and it runs fine... I'm not exactly sure whats the pinpoint problem but i'm assuming flywheel or stator. I'm wanting to sell it... if you want it... make me an offer.. comes with a reworked 25 pitch renegade prop with abou 10 minutes on it. located in Southeast Texas... will meet half way possibly

Thanks for the offer but I'll have to pass. I got it apart and it doesn't look that bad. I think I'm going to take the fellow BBC members advice and re-sleeve the #2 cylinder and hone and re-ring the rest. I'll check one of the local machine shops tomorrow and see if they can do the re-sleeve.

The rebuild is complete and it running great. The machinist re-sleeved the number 2 ,bored them all .020 over and cleaned up the ports. I put a 67D jet in the number 2. Do you guys think I should put 67D in all the cylinders since they are .020 over?

You should be good with the 67 in the one cylinder. Break her in right and go.