Thanks for the replies and the info. It has been an encouragement and I’m leaning towards getting it going. I’ve yet to test the compression but I tell you that the “Armstrong” seat of the pants compression tester indicates that compression is not an issue. After it pulls with a lot of resistance in a strong chugging manner with lots of lubricant squirted in the cylinders. This was quite obviously a fresh water motor with very little use. The cowl screw stripped because it was a philips head, not that it was rusted in. It was buggered up to begin with and I just couldn’t get any torque on it.
I have a little MFG/Crestliner Car Top Fisherman 12 foot boat that I hope to restore that would be a nice match for this and some of my other motors like The Johnson K40, a ‘58 Johnson 7 1/2, a Johnson A-35, a slew of Johnson and Evinrude 3 hp’s, a Evinrude Zephyr (I really like it but not a sentiment shared by everyone), and a gaggle of others in the 10 and under hp range which is the rating of the MFG/Crestliner. MFG had just bought Crestliner so they were a little confused how to market it in 1964 and put both manufacturers tags on it.
Sorry for the rambling, not much to do with all my favorite haunts shut down or manned by zombies in face masks.
