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October 18, 2022 at 10:32 pm #267884
Bob Wight
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    Buc – if you have some, you might also try soaking the head studs with Evaporust.   On my FD-12 project, I found that seemed to work better than penetrating oils in finally breaking loose the bad corrosion and wicking down into the threads on my broken exhaust cover screws.

    Bob

    1937 Champion D2C Deluxe Lite Twin
    1954 Johnson CD-11
    1955 Johnson QD-16
    1957 Evinrude Fastwin 18
    1957 Evinrude 3022
    1958 Johnson QD-19
    1958 Johnson FD-12
    1959 Johnson QD-20
    1982 Evinrude 25hp

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