Hello group. I did a cool project today. I bought a honda 75 '80 for my new kicker. she's been garaged since '80. BRAND NEW BASICALL!
However she was a short shaft but I just had to have her. So I found a longshaft 75 with a blown power head and swapped the lower ends..heck of an all day job for a guy like me. It's done and it was quite rewarding. Now here's my question. When I put the lower end on I noticed a lot of calcium buildup on the tube on the old used lower end that runs the water up through to cycle water to cool the motor. I was gonna dig it out but forgot..I had parts everywhere and it was basically an all day nightmare for me and my friend. So now I ran her and of course she doesn't have a steady stream of water peeing out..just a bit more than drips. I know that means to put a new impellar in. However I was thinking of filling my full-size garbage can up half way with water, adding a bottle of clr and running her to see if it got the lime and calcium out of it and cleared it up to a steady stream. Has anyone ever tried this? Do you think it would hurt? or Could hurt the motor? I was planning on doing this and running her for 15 minutes. Then dumping out this water and refilling the can and flushing her out with just fresh water. What does the group think? BTW. How much is it approx. to take my motor in and have the impellar done?
Thank you, Stephen