Re: 40hp Johnson 1963 Water Pump

[twsnagel]

Thank you, FrankR!

Yes – I usually am so good at reading the "Good Words" in the shop manual, and missed those ones. I thought the linkage worked as a clamp and that I didn’t need to remove the bolt to add the linkage. Hopefully others can learn from this as well.

I’ll pull it apart again tonight, and put the nut/bolt on as you suggest.

Maybe I’ll get away with the old grommets one more time. In any case, I’ll order new ones, but they will take a few days to arrive. The only dealer in town does not have a good stock of old parts.

I was so looking forward to having this out of my garage, finally, after 8 months, and had even booked time off work and planned a trip North with my dad to drop it at the lake on Monday and take it for a test drive.

I assume that the bolt and nut should be stainless? I won’t hit some kind of weird galvanic corrosion with the brass linkage in the exhaust stream? Lock washer rather than nylon castle nut, I’d assume? I think the nylon will melt.

-T