Reply To: Antique/Classic Motor Mechanic Needed West Bend, Wisconsin

[Fred Hickman]

Well now, the carb may, or may not need a cleaning, or rebuild. That remains to be seen. Try fresh gasoline/oil and pump it thru’ the hose by squeezing the primer bulb and depressing the fuel side pin on the connector. Eight or ten pumps will shoot the old fuel OUT and refill the hose with the NEW. Catch the old fuel in a pan, or bucket, or something. Drop the motor into a barrel filled with water, connect the fuel line, tighten the fuel cap and pump up the primer bulb till it feels hard to squeeze. Now pull the choke, grab the starter handle and give her the devil. ( Put her into neutral and twist the handgrip a tad to the left. If she fires up, let her run in the barrel for a while. (In the picture, that 35 looks very, very nice). Let’s pretend that things go well with the motor and you end up buying it. For gasoline, find an airport, or race track. If an airport, fill your fuel can with 100 LL aircraft fuel. (100 LL is 100 Octane gasoline that has had a low amount of lead added). It is opaque blue in color and smells different than the ethynol gasoline trash that we buy at the pump. OR, you can go to your area race track and buy 93 Octane gasoline with NO ETHYNOL !! Of course, you mix both types of gasoline with quality two-stroke marine oil. 50:1 ratio. ETHYNOL is the bane of ALL carburetors. It is cancer to carbureted gasoline engines both two and four-stroke. When ETHYNOL sits dormant in a carb, fuel system, fuel tank, over a period of time, it clogs, gags, starves, and generally wreaks havoc inside of gasoline engines.

Now about the AOMC, Inc ……….. This Club offers just about everything an antique outboard motor enthusiast would be interested in. Becoming a member most definitely has its advantages. The AOMC holds a gaggle of experienced people that know these old motors from top to bottom, inside-out, sideways, and upside down. NOT KIDDING! There are a number of VERY WISE OWLS scattered amongst the membership of the AOM. And then, there are cool things like swap meets, meet & greet meets, Chapter activities, and a whole bunch of what-not. For what it is worth ti you, I highly encourage you to join the organization, …….. immediately, if not sooner. You will NOT regret it. Fred Hickman, Millville, NJ 08332