Thank you guys! I already had found the joeoutboard site after I had posted here. Great advice on the gear case. I took the cowling off for the first time last night and did my initial inspection of the motor. It is a die cast block for starters. The serial number on the top of the block matches the serial number on the tag which is 860465 and the block still has the factory lead seal in it. It also has the swing type starter instead of the bendix and the starter works well (just used jumper cables to see if it worked and I did unplug the rectifier which I suspect is no good anyway because its missing a chunk out of it). Everything else seems to be there and looks to be original just dirty. The carbs have some visible varnish from the old gas sitting in the throats so I would imagine all of the fuel system will need gone through to get all of that out of there. No spark but didn’t really expect there to be. Now the bad part is there looks to be a small crack in the side of the block so I may need another 40 cube block to put in this motor. It still has compression and turns over freely so I would think that most of the internal parts are still fine just need the block itself. Any advice/information that you all would like to provide about this motor or how I should move forward would be great.
