I’m not 100% sure your elgin is the same as the one I’m talking about here.
I had a nice 5HP Twin Cylinder Elgin come my way a while back. It needed a new impeller; the old one (10 vane) had lost each and every one of it’s vanes.
When I contacted Brian Wilcox he told me that he no longer makes the 10 vane Elgin impellers 25065-*; but he suggested an interesting fix!
“Take two of the Mercury 47-33980 impellers intended for use with Mercury 4.5-9.8 engines of the 60’s era. Stack ’em and run ’em!”
So….I did just that. The driveshaft needs to be drilled; fabricate a small pin that goes in the shaft and can catch in the slot in the brass core of the impeller. You will need to slightly (VERY SLIGHTLY) enlarge the inner diameter of the core; I did this by wrapping emory paper around the shank of a drill bit. Took just seconds per impeller.
I sourced my impellers from China for a whopping $3.68 each shipped. They arrived within 10 days (Shipped from a location n Southern California actually…)
This is an easy repair and it worked very nicely. Another Elgin runs again!
