I agree about the water intrusion and yes Pawleys Island is on the Atlantic. It’s weird but the mainland, where I live, has the same name as the island itself. The other thing is I live on what’s technically a peninsula. I’m 1.3 miles to the ocean and 2.5 miles to the Intracoastal Waterway/Waccamaw River. The river is fresh here unless there’s a really bad drought when it gets slightly brackish on high tides. I do 99.5% of my boating in fresh water and has been a really long time since this motor has seen salt. The previous owner lived on the river but I can’t really say if they ever took it over to the island and used it in the salt water creeks over there. That said I realize the crank could be trashed. It seems like there was only a very small amount of water, just enough to stick a ring or two. The first thing I did today was to remove the lower unit. It’s free. I suppose if it is the carbon seal, the water was sucked in right onto the crank. It so, that’s junk. Did they make the inner exhaust cover out of stainless in ’57? I’m going to do some experimenting with compressed air to see if I can locate the leak.
Thank you both for the advice and info!
Andy
'48 Zephyr, restored '06, runs great
'54 Fastwin, restored '09, runs great
'57 Fastwin, unrestored, locked up in 2018
