Reply To: Mercury K1? Or maybe not?

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kirkp wrote:

Louis or others will chime in but I believe these early Mercs share components. Don’t know if you already have it but I’m attaching a parts list for the early models.

I don’t think taking some emory cloth to clean up the crank will be a problem as long as you don’t go crazy.

Out of curiosity have you checked the compression? You could probably double nut the crank threads and use a drill to turn it over.

Kirk

I haven’t checked compression with a gauge as I rarely do on small pre-1950 motors. Turning it by hand it seemed to have pretty good bounce.

I do have some of the old charts that list parts. Turns out K1/K3 share many parts! I can use the flywheel and mag from my k3 to keep moving forward.

Scott