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I’m not really clear with the pictures….is there, or is there not, a conventional drive shaft and pinion gear? I’m not so much caring how it drives anything right now…I am just wondering if they are THERE? (If not, what was the point of having a gas motor connected to nothing?)
Let’s suppose I was a Johnson engineer with big dreams and time on my hands. What I might try to make would be a hybrid outboard…When the conventional gas power head ran, it would drive the prop and the electric motor, which might function as a generator to charge a battery. Then, fishing, the electric motor would be able to drive the prop shaft directly with some kind of clutch that would maybe centrifugally disengage from the gear.
Hey, what do I know? Why not? Maybe the engineer went on to Toyota and made the Prius.
PS…I can’t believe this is your first Johnson? What are you going to do for an encore, when you get a second one? A Wankle? Gas turbine?
Long live American manufacturing!