Starting the 8hp Briggs & stratton in my boat

The boat had been sitting out on the sea for some months, and rain water and salt water had covered 1/3 of the engine. I didn´t think it was going to start, but it did! Briggs engines are the best! This one is a 1977 8hp engine, originally from a Gilson snow blower, but i have used it in my boat for two seasons, and it just runs perfect!

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• briggs
• stratton
• 8hp
• boat
• running
• cold
• start
• snowblower
• engine
• homemade
• gilson

[10yroldcarlover]

i bet if you sunk it it would find flammable molucules in the seawater and still run

[kiarra00]

@10yroldcarlover Of course, it's a Briggs!

[amiskomulainen69]

u have litle bit too much oil in there =/

[kiarra00]

@amiskomulainen69 no, the engine sits at an angle, and the oil was filled to max when it was out of the boat, that's why.

[memphisapplegate]

@kiarra00 I love this boat. Any idea where I could find a gearbox similar to the one you have there? I've been shopping around, and I can't find a small transmission like that anywhere, at any price. Do you know if anyone still makes small gearbox units like that? Personally, I think small boats with simple drive trains would sell commercially where reliability is a must. I have an outboard powered boat, but I never feel secure with the thing, in situations where failure in not an option.

[kiarra00]

@memphisapplegate It's not excatly a gearbox, it's a prop angle adjuster, there are no gears inside it, it just pushes on a shaft inside the driveshaft that moves the propeller blades, to make it go reverse, different speeds and neutral. I don't know where you can get one of these, because mine was in the boat when i got it.

[krankiev]

That's pretty cool, I've never seen a boat with an engine setup like that!

[randomguy9898]

to kill a briggs is an almost impossible feat.

[ismokewead420]

chug chug chuggachug chug chug chuggachug

BEST. SOUND. EVAR.

[weasleteets]

..........WD40...............d­o it.



[porpoisefathom]

good vid--did you instal the engine??..whats the gearbox on it? what size prop r u running?

[brodie1709]

why is there a pice of pepporni sitting in the bottom of the boat at 1.12?