I’m going to have about $350.00 in a 75 Twistshift.
Maybe a little more. About 200.00 of that will be going
to Russ Larson but that’s because he has about anything
you could want or need for these. His seal set is
$50.00 but at $25.00 for the power head and $25.00
for the gear case. I don’t think that is out of line.
Impeller is $18.00. Not out of line for most 60+ year
old motors if you can find one. I could have saved
$45.00 by making my own gaskets but that’s for
every gasket in the motor including the carb and the
gas cap seal. Most of the motors I work on the only
gasket I can get comes on the spark plug. He has LU
gear sets from $30.00 to $40.00 and $50.00 for the 200.
That’s $15.00 to $25.00 a gear. I’d be glad to pay that
and more for some of my pre. WW-II motors but they
aren’t even available. The problem with these is there
isn’t a strong interest in them. I suspect that there will
be little interest in asking for anything over $200.00
for it. So getting to learn about them, repair it, and
then to use it will justify what I spend. I haven’t need
any special tools to work on it. I’m still weighting on
parts so I haven’t started to put in back together yet but
I don’t expect anything to be difficult. It has several
interesting features and I’m really looking forward to
using it this summer.