Hello, thought I would submit a post to ask the age old question of what year and Hp is a motor that I have the opportunity to buy. It is a Montgomery Ward's Sea King and I was told by the owner that it is a 5 Hp motor. Although, when he removed the cover briefly, I thought I only saw one spark...
Is there an easy way to tell which is cylinder #1 and coil #1? New to outboards, and have replaced the coils and wires.
After a little research on this site someone asked if the OP was certain his wires weren't reversed. Guess i never even thought about it, but I just hooked the shorter wire...
A little background first - I am new to outboard motors. I recently (a month ago) bought an old 14 ft Jon boat that included this outboard. I wasn't real concerned about the outboard, as the boat came with 2 trolling motors, and most of the public lakes around here only allow 10Hp or less or...
