...or actually at the scrap yard.
I am finishing off the first of two 1956 Johnson 30hp outboards. Had them painted, and am reassembling them now. One was junked, but I was able to salvage it by finding the missing parts on AOMCI and here on the forum.
Today my wife and I decided to go get lunch, and on the way swing into the local boat scrap yard to look for whatever the mechanisim is that leads from the cam-follower roller to the recoil/flywheel...I think its and interlock of some kind.
I remembered seeing on old 1957 Golden Javelin laying dimantled in the weeds, but with 2 feet of snow on the ground and a thousand motors laying everywhere, any motors were hard to detect outside. The tech looked here and there for a motor we could scrap the part I need off.
No Dice!
So I wandered outside in the two feet of snow and finally located the Javelin that was frozen to the ground under a foot of snow. It was whole, except for the cowling and lower unit. Even seemed to have decent compression when I got it home.
The tech said it would cost 20 bucks for the part I wanted. In a moment of shear shock at the asking price, I heard a voice say..."I'll give you 50 bucks for the whole thing!"
The voice was me!
The tech went into the office and came back and said "You bought a motor! I'll even carry it to the truck for you."
Now the problem is, though there is really no other choice, is I have to scrap a motor that would be plain lovely if restored. But I'm not about to hunt around for a 57 Javelin hoodand lower unit. Especially since I'm restoring a 56 Javelin.
I just hate to scrap a motor. It's like peeing in a graveyard. It just ain't holy or something.
I need a 12 step program.
Greg
I am finishing off the first of two 1956 Johnson 30hp outboards. Had them painted, and am reassembling them now. One was junked, but I was able to salvage it by finding the missing parts on AOMCI and here on the forum.
Today my wife and I decided to go get lunch, and on the way swing into the local boat scrap yard to look for whatever the mechanisim is that leads from the cam-follower roller to the recoil/flywheel...I think its and interlock of some kind.
I remembered seeing on old 1957 Golden Javelin laying dimantled in the weeds, but with 2 feet of snow on the ground and a thousand motors laying everywhere, any motors were hard to detect outside. The tech looked here and there for a motor we could scrap the part I need off.
No Dice!
So I wandered outside in the two feet of snow and finally located the Javelin that was frozen to the ground under a foot of snow. It was whole, except for the cowling and lower unit. Even seemed to have decent compression when I got it home.
The tech said it would cost 20 bucks for the part I wanted. In a moment of shear shock at the asking price, I heard a voice say..."I'll give you 50 bucks for the whole thing!"
The voice was me!
The tech went into the office and came back and said "You bought a motor! I'll even carry it to the truck for you."
Now the problem is, though there is really no other choice, is I have to scrap a motor that would be plain lovely if restored. But I'm not about to hunt around for a 57 Javelin hoodand lower unit. Especially since I'm restoring a 56 Javelin.
I just hate to scrap a motor. It's like peeing in a graveyard. It just ain't holy or something.
I need a 12 step program.
Greg
