Re: Removing flywheel Goodyear Seabee

[cajuncook1]

Cool motors, your going to have a blast with it. Your motor is a 1949 to 1950 Gale built 5hp motor. Gale was the 3rd division company that was housed under OMC. Johnson and Evinrudes were housed under OMC as well. Gale built motors that were sold by different companies that slapped their badge name on them for resale. Examples Sea King from Montgomery Wards, Viking from Eaton"s in Canada, Atlas from Atlas tire company, Sea Bee from Good Year tire, Buccaneer from Gale own stock and their are others. Differences were side cowls, decals, and knobs. Power heads, internals, and lower units were the same. So, good news, plenty of parts motors…. 😀

Here is a free downloadable Master service manual for Gale motors. The link with take you Richard L. Plaquette’s site.

http://www.richardlpaquette.ca/GaleProd … Manual.pdf

Your motors Gale reference model is 2G7 which is equal the Viking Gale model of C2G7. Here is downloadable parts manual.

http://www.richardlpaquette.ca/C2G7.PDF

Here is a you tube video that help give some guidance for removing a flywheel with a harmonic wheel puller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz1st4XnsX4

Sorry, I can’t remember if your motor uses the OMC universal ignition.

Well, I think I have given you enough information to get started. Remember, when you put your flywheel back on you will need to torque the flywheel down with 40ft pounds of torque.

Keep us posted and post pictures for inspection. Remember it is helpful to take digital pictures as you go to help with will putting things back together. Keep parts in plastic zip lock bags and label them for ignition or carb. You get my meaning to help keep you organized and prevent accidental lose of parts. Hey, we all have been there.

Cheers to ya,

Cajuncook1