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I agree that some expensive parts may exceed the value of the motor but when one looks at the purchase price of a new engine plus taxes the investment in a staro take a different perspective.
Most of these old motors have lots of life in them if mecanically sound. and reviving one is a lot cheaper than buyng new.
Patience brings joy 🙂
btw did you check Dave Bernard’s suggestion on the insulator blocks ….Dave is an expect on Mercs …looks for small cracks !
Yes – I checked the insulator block and it is fine and electrically is Ok too.
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I appreciate your comment, and I get the value compared to price on new motors, and I like the old ones better (hey – it’s one of my hobbies!), but the owner of this one got it from a relative, doesn’t have extra money to put $300 + into it for a stator, and doesn’t really need the motor because a couple years ago I restored a 1956 3HP Evinrude for him that he uses. He may give or sell it to me, but I don’t have much interest in putting much money into it because I have over 90 motors from 2 to 40 HP (I live on a lake), and a lot of them are waiting for resto, and there are several of my motors (mainly OMCs and Champions) I’d rather be fixing up. My next project will be to try to make two good running 1955-56 15 HP Evinrude Fastwins out of three that I have, and set them up on a 1957 Crestliner Viking14 as a dual setup. I have a dual remote control box.
I’m 95% sure the stator is bad, but I’ll see what the oscilloscope tells me before I totally give up.
Dave