Reply To: Dual fuel line to single line dilemma

[billw]

benj wrote:

In the span of about 3 weeks, I’ve gone from having one outboard(68 JW-23M) to now having 3!(2nd purchase was an ebay deal on a JW-12)

Last Friday I acquired a 1959 5.5hp Evinrude Golden Jubilee Fisherman. The previous owner didn’t know that it used a dual line tank, and sold it to me with a 6 gallon single line tank. I’ve started to rebuild the carb, and since I have the intake plate off, that’s how I came to the dilemma:

Is it cheaper/easier to just switch to a single line set-up now, or somehow find a dual line tank that won’t break the bank?

The motor is in decent shape cosmetically, but nowhere close to showroom new. I plan on keeping all of the parts in case I or someone else restores it down the road.

Thanks in advance,

-Ben

At the rate you’re acquiring outboards, you will soon have a second and a third engine that were made to run with a two-line tank! Might as well just face it. You’re hooked, now. Find a proper pressure tank, because you will need it!

Long live American manufacturing!