Reply To: Looking for a owners manual for a QD 15 10 hp Johnson outboard

[fisherman6]

Mumbles wrote:

Rider wrote:

Thank you Mumbles thats what i was looking for

the hood i got has the wing bolts but has white paint on the sides instead of the dull aluminium paint i wonder if the end of 54 they changed to the white

Definitely ’55 style paint with the Cream trim so it could possibly be an early ’55 if it has the ’54 wingnuts. I’ve seen that before on the 5 1/2 horse motors so they were probably using leftover parts from the ’54 models.On the other hand, it could be a real late ’54 using the ’55 paint scheme. What’s the serial number on it?

The ’54 still has the Seahorse logo cast into the earlier style exhaust leg and no rubber isolation mounts. If it is an “early ’55” situation like many of us have encountered with the CD models, I’d say it would have the thumbscrew retainers on the cover but have the later ’55 exhaust housing and rubber mounts. Those are the things that really defined the ’55 motors.
-Ben

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