Reply To: Well, it’s almost a classic….

[billw]

Thanks, Don. I found a nice manual on eBay, that just came today! I’m all set now.

I am not sure what came over me, to try to resurrect this thing, except that people tell me the eights are pretty strong runners. This one is a real piece of work, but I will make it go. It’s a long shaft at the moment but by the time I get the top end done, I hope to find a short shaft lower unit. I could have sworn I HAD one. I am still looking.

Interesting that when I took the power head apart, the pistons pushed out by hand; the crank shaft was almost perfect and yet one head of one connecting rod bolt was just fried off from electrolysis, I guess. The head was completely gone, for some reason but the rod had not thrown.

Long live American manufacturing!