Reply To: Shift handle repair on 1960 Evinrude Sportwin 10 HP

[Mark Luetschwager]

Well gosh, thanks to both of you guys!  This is just the sort of things I was hoping would happen when I became a member, and I believe I will shoot over to EBay and buy a new handle.  Sure, I will paint the motor when I’m done, but there is quite a bit of sun fading on the fiberglass hood, and some rubbing through to the yellow fiberglass.  I will make it work better than it looks, I hope.  I’ll still have to see my friend John the welder because when the p.o. had the thermostat plug with weeds and junk, he didn’t realize it or didn’t know how to remove the housing and clean or replace it.  So, at some point the head overheated (paint discolored and white corrosion) with a gasket leak and of course a couple of the head bolts became corroded and snapped off in spite of carefully using an impact wrench to loosen  them.  John has a great technique in his method of welding a bolt on the exposed end of the broken bolt and then I can usually back it out instead of drilling it out.  (Fingers crossed).  I’ll shoot some paint then, I hope.