Reply To: Bearcat 55

[David Stanton]

Thanks guys for the info.   I’ll see if I can get it running next summer as we got our first snow here in Minnesota this week.  So far I noticed one of the spring-steel latches that hold the distributer cap on is broken, but if I can’t find one, I can make one – the part looks very similar to older Fords..  If I get it running, I’ll need remote controls to put it on a boat.  Anyone know if Scott remote controls hook up to it?….otherwise, I think I can modify OMC controls to fit .  For now, I bolted a dense piece of treated pine 2 x 12 that I had laying around to my car engine stand, and set the motor on the board with my cherry picker.  Now I can roll it around in my garage.  It weighs about 239 pounds.  FYI:  In one of my posts above, I said it looked like a car engine mounted horizontal – that was a brain-induced typo, it looks like a car engine turned on end vertical.  It ‘s based on the old Crosley car engine.  With it I also got  30, 33, and 40 HP Johnsons and a 10 Evinrude.   A guy who had all these passed and his son was cleaning out his garage.  The 40 is electric shift with parts missing and broken, but it only cost me $25, so I took it for parts.  Now to make space amongst my other 90+ motors…..Dave