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Yeah, I already removed the extra piece and the motor worked fine from there (mentioned in an earlier post). It was sold a couple of weeks back, customer even followed up with a thank you note after his first time out with it (always nice to receive those).
I just figured it was an interesting piece since I hadn’t seen one like that before, that it might be a nice conversation piece for the forums. Obviously with motors that are 5, 10, 20, 40 years old, who knows what the history is. Most of the time, I’m spending repairing someone else’s hack-job/cob-job, or just plain bad job.
I guess the whole "you can’t find parts anywhere for these things" standard line from most marinas is enough to encourage people on a tight budget to do weird things to keep the motors running a little longer. I mean, business is business, it’s just too bad there is no support for most motors over 5 years old anymore, given their relative simplicity and overall ability to just run, and run, and run when cared for.