Reply To: 1947 Mercury KD4 gear case seals

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The long and short of Mercury and Wizard towers and drive shafts
Typical Wizar.
y postwar tower (dull aluminum) note exhaut
outlet is blended into cavitation plate
Mercury tower (gold) note the exhaust outlet is separated
from the cavitation plate. The silver Wizard tower is long
then the gold Mercury tower thus long and short drive shafts
I have no ideas about the fraction of an inch difference in the other
drive shafts. Prewar Kiekhaefer seem to be Mercury pattern
the Wizard pattern seems to be a postwar motors only.
Apparently Wizards and Mercurys left factory with towers usually
found with the other brand. There is also a Wizard manual on
the Wizard site showing a Wizard WD4 S with the typical Mercury
tower. It seems fair to assume that a lot was going on at Kiekhaefer
for reasons that can only be speculated about.
Louis