Reply To: Buccaneer

[Bob Wight]

Following up on Tinman’s Javelin lower seal question, my ‘56 RD-18 came with the crappy lower seal and the double base gasket/stainless baffle plate. The powerhead was a total junker and I found a good RDE-18 powerhead with the improved lower crank seal. As Frank noted, I can’t see where the stainless baffle plate provides any real benefit so I’m thinking I will just install a new single base gasket and leave the baffle plate out. Thoughts on this? BTW, I think there was a thread on this baffle plate topic some time ago but can’t find it through the search feature.

Bob

1937 Champion D2C Deluxe Lite Twin
1954 Johnson CD-11
1955 Johnson QD-16
1957 Evinrude Fastwin 18
1957 Evinrude 3022
1958 Johnson QD-19
1958 Johnson FD-12
1959 Johnson QD-20
1982 Evinrude 25hp

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