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Great photo of the crank seal! Thanks for posting it. We have a very nice original FD-10 that runs beautifully. The only major cosmetic flaw is that the original owner engraved his drivers license number in the hood! 🙄 I have three motors with this type of thing on them….. We have not replaced that crank seal, and as I said, it runs great, but will keep it in mind if it starts to act up. I used to be afraid of pressure tanks and thought there may have been issues with them, but this one convinced me that they work just fine.
Steve
😳 😳 😳 True story: Two years ago at Tomahawk, Kevin and I just launched the boat for the cruise and the parade, when the Mk-25 we were planning to run had a stuck float. (I have since replaced the float as it did it to me again this year), This was the polished motor I built from scrap parts, and it was running great before we left, but the ride to the show must have allowed to float to stick in the float bowl. In any event, three other fellows launched while we were messing with it, one being Ben Dittmar, all with FD-10’s. (What are the odds?) They pulled their ropes and drove away……. 👿 We did fix it, and were able to catch the cruise, as once it was running, it was running! 😀
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quote pugetsoundboater:Do all the 1959 have the square boxy looking cowlings,or was that Evinrude only? Thanks, Jim PSBEvinrude had the square boxy look and Johnson wasn’t really boxy but started moving away from the look of previous years. These are both 1960 but the ’59 was the same shape for each.
quote Mumbles:Here’s that infamous lower crank seal on these motors which keeps the owners guessing what’s wrong. This one popped right out of the housing when I looked at it!I knew it would happen sooner or later. Now all you have to do is look at those seals and they pop right out…like a Jedi mind trick!
By the way Steve, that’s an awesome look for that Mercury!
59-61, then they went to this style for awhile (I think this was from Mumbles post on youtube)
photo hostingI started with a donnor qd …… $0
later came FD 25$ road side garage sale…. with stand , a dual hose tank and…. a Mercury plastic tank to boot 🙂then there was a JW $50 I knew the deceased owner who had paid $50 for 2 JW 😯 …. his son sold me one for $50
another JW $40 on Kijiji was in a small town North of Montrealanother …JW my latest was $20 on Kijiji fuel tank full of bumps looked like hell and had 75-80 lbs both cyl. cracked coils
the 5.5 and 7.5 were also Kijiji deals all engines came with cracked coils 😀
MY Pristine 9.5 9622a was $50 down from asking price of $75 (no tank) it was locked solid for 3 weeks but loosened up nicely Being locked up I offered $50 because…. "I could be buying an anchor " 😆
My last 9622a asking $100 last week.. on Montreal KIJIJi I offered $75… proving to be a bit more challenging but it will live again The motor had been "on line" Sunday morning for 34 minutes when I saw it at $100 …. e-mail the seller at $75 and he agreed … the motor was in the basement 2 hours later
then there was the 3.9 Merc..and the 4W71R…..
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