Re: Best years for OMC 10 horse?

[Dale]

Yes, those 10hp OMC from the early 50’s are great. I have a bunch of them. The 1953 QD is my second favorite motor. Little noisey but, it pushes my 14’er to about 22mph. Funny how the OMC engineers had the four bolt lower unit in 49 on the 10hp the 14hp and the 15hp through the "54 models. Then in 55 they switched to the five bolt on the 10, 15, and in 57 the 18HP. In ’58 they went back to the 4 bolt in the 10hp. Maybe they couldn’t make up their minds about how strong it needed to be!