Re: West Bend 40hp outboard

[retiredoz]

Just idly glancing at the specs in my handy-dandy motor bible, it appears West Bend built that as a 40-hp ’59-’62. It then morphed into a 45-hp in ’63, and continued by Chrysler as a 45-hp until Force came along in ’84 or so. Given Chrysler’s propensity for not mucking up a good thing, I’ll bet there’s a lot of similarity, although probably not identical. My old Sierra book lists 18-5149 and 18-5169 for points and cond, respectively if you have the Morse mag,
or 18-5162 and 18-5238 for the Wico mag.