?? About a 99' ficht

[mruss100]

Yesterday while fishing with my buddy in his Statos with a 99 200 ficht we went into a cove and as we slowed down and started idleing over to the bank we were going to fish we felt a small clunk like we hit something. I looked at the depth finder immediately thinking he had hit bottom but we were in 15' of water. We continued on and fished the bank with no more noise or problems. But, when we started to leave the cove his engine had a terrible knocking sound. I had him take it out of gear to see if it was related to the lower end and the knock continued. We idled for about 10 more minutes and then he opened it up and ran about a mile back to the ramp. When we stopped at the no wake zone the knock was completely gone and did not reappear while we were loading the boat. We checked what we could see from the outside at the ramp and found no problem. I didn't have the heart to tell him but it sounded like a loose piston or something broke in the block to me. Any Ideas??

[marlinmatt]

i dont have the answer for this one, but i had a similar feeling in my 92' 175 evinrude im curious to know what this could be.. it was the same deal and happened once to me wher the motor made a aweful clunking noise and when i took it out of gear and put it back in she was fine for the most part.. im getting the motor serviced next week so i could let you know then.

[SEAHORSE]

Because you still heard the knocking sound after shifting into neutral, remove the bottom gearcase drain screw and look for metal pieces on the maget and for any "metallic looking" oil.

[ARK Ranger]

They had troubles with these lower units. I lost one on my 2000 225 Ficht. You are lucky, mine went down in the middle of the lake . Hope this is not your problem but it sounds like it is.