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A friend has been digging out some old motors
he was given some time ago. One was this
1947 Sportwin. The motor looks better than
average with 90% of the decals and only a
couple of dents in the gas tank that are so
slight you have to feel the tank to know they
are there. It did have some stinky old gas left
in it however with the usual layer of goop.
The recoil starter has a lot of ware, some
damage, and parts (washers & springs) missing.
We got the 2 nails, cut the slot in one, and he
knows someone who plays he guitar so we
now had everything.You want to start with a piece of wire about 5” long.
The first one we made we did the double loop
as per the instructions.Put it on the starter and wrapped the other
end around the small pin to get the length.
Took it off and used the small nail to get it
sized. Then clipped off the excess.The tension is critical here. We took the
starter off a Ranger to get a sense of how
strong they should be and noticed the sprigs
only had single loop so we made some that
way.Cleaned out the gear case, carburetor, and gas
tank. We had pulled it over before we ever
started on itand it had a good spark so we
never did pull off the flywheel.Put it back together and the starter worked.
Stuck it on the boat, put in some gas, open the
petcock, primed it and it started on the second
pull. Had to shut it back off though as we didn’t
have the correct tension so the paws. They were
not pulling away from the segmented wheel. One
of our springs had come off. One of the small
pins is damaged. The slot is closed up so the
wire doesn’t go in like it should. We tried to
open it back up with a file. Everything else is so
worn out and loose and now that we have it
running we have kind of lost interest in getting
the starter to work.
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