Hey Everyone. I received a free Montgomery Ward's Sea King 15hp (1984 Model) and my buddy had picked it up from someone else. He said it was stored inside but has been awhile since it was ran. So I got two plugs (L82C) and put em in and stuck the motor in a barrel without the prop on. My problem is: the motor didn't come with the female fuel connector so a small local boat shop hooked me up with one out of a spare fuel connector bucket for $3. The female seems to have an intact O-Ring inside. I swapped it with my johnson fitting and connected it to the Male on the Sea King. When I prime it fuels spits out around the fittings (obviously not sealing). Like I said the Female seems to have an O-Ring but the male on the Engine itself has no O-Rings. Is it supposed to? Can anyone verify this for me? I put an O-Ring I found randomly on the Male all the way up against the Jam Nut where there is a little indented ring (figure if it is supposed to have an O-Ring on the male this is where it should be). It seem to help but was really thick so I had to really force the Female on to get it to Lock on. But after that it started leaking from the back part of the Female Slide (I assume the O-Ring on the male was way too thick so the slide couldn't lock all the way properly). Took all I had to get it to unlock from the Male. I am going to get an O-Ring kit from the auto store to see if a thinner one will seal it.
Even with it leaking severely, the engine did fire, run but would die after about 20 seconds. It doesn't leak while running so I figure it is sucking a huge amount of air through the fuel fitting and making it die eventually.
My next idea is to thread a male Johnson style fuel connector through the front and put a Threaded Barbed fitting on the back side to connect it to the fuel line under the cowl to try converting it to a more common set up.
Thanks!
Even with it leaking severely, the engine did fire, run but would die after about 20 seconds. It doesn't leak while running so I figure it is sucking a huge amount of air through the fuel fitting and making it die eventually.
My next idea is to thread a male Johnson style fuel connector through the front and put a Threaded Barbed fitting on the back side to connect it to the fuel line under the cowl to try converting it to a more common set up.
Thanks!