Re: ‘62 5.5 evinrude

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scottshea


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I am on long island fleetwin. Doug thanks for the step by step. Certainly sounds like I can do that. I will give it a whirl and yeah hardly anyone looked at this thing in the shop. They didn’t charge me so atleast they aren’t crooks too. Spoke to my mother about the hours on this thing. According to her. The original owner barely used it. My grandfather got it as a gift from the orininal owner and he never used it then my mother had it and it was a temp motor for when either our 18 or 40 fast twin went on the fritz. So we can ballpark the hours somewhere between hardly broken in and barely used. I will say when I opened it up everything was in fantastic shape. Original coils were intact not split. Wires were still flexible etc etc. I know better. Wires will crack, gaskets will fail, fuel pump probably will leak. Water pump gotta be shot. When I dug in. Water pump was the upgrade pump. Wires were stranded not solid. I just replaced the things that were most likely going to cause headaches. Then got the ignition firing both cylinders. One condenser and points ended up being replaced. Both coils and wires. The plugs probably are original. I’m going to replace them. Eliminate that. I’ll follow Doug’s instructions and see if I’m in time with the cam. Fuel lines are replaced. Hopefully it ends there. I could use a set of those neon spark testers. I’ll pick them up just to verify spark is good. From there it looks like I’m pulling the power head and looking into the shock absorber. Thanks everyone. I’ll keep you guys posted on the progress. With a little luck I’ll be running just in time to winterize it.