The flywheel has a built in puller and you can spiff up the points and test the condenser very easily – all my Bendix motors have had good coils. I seem to recall there is a shut-off wire that likes to get frayed and short. And mind my earlier note, modern sparkplugs are too long and will hit (and break) the bake-o-lite insulators inside the cowl. I’ve got some NOS oldies in mine (Think they are J-8s)
FYI, my TMD came from Lubec – maybe both were sold by the same dealer!
To those who doubt they will ever find one – my Bendix SM came from a yard sale that was about 1 mile from my house. In my area of CT all the outboards that turn up have been used in Long Island Sound and are totally crusty. But the SM was mint with only the typical broken skeg – I am tankful to a neighbor who visited the yard sale and called me. The motor was a whopping $40 – the seller was so happy the motor was going to someone who was interested in it (it had been his dads) that he through in a nice rolling stand and 2 brass Michigan props for OMC 10 & 18s. That was the icing on the cake, it was the best tag sale outboard deal I’ve ever gotten!
