It seems to be a 50/50 chance an eighteen will have either a ring gear or an inertia ring on it but I think all of my ’57 and older Evinrude rope starts came with an inertia ring. I always smile when I see a ring gear on a manual start motor as half of the conversion job to electric start is already done. This ’63 Johnson literature says the motors all come with a ring gear.
Nice ’58 FD you have there but where’s the speed indicator band? ☺
