CATransplant
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Finally! I unloaded all of my Sears, Eska, and Sea King outboards today in one lot. Good riddance to them all. The Johnson 6hp is running great, which I cannot say was ever the case with the others.
The 1974 9.9 hp Ted Williams/Eska with the balky solid state ignition system would run sometimes and not other times. No parts available, so it has been lying on the garage floor for two years.
The 3 hp Eska which would run like a banshee...when the needle actually seated...and would fill the crankcase with fuel mix when it didn't. New needle. New seat, new float. Same results. You just never new what state it was going to be in until you tried to start it.
The 5 hp Sea King/Clinton, which almost always started. Almost. Except for the time the wind came up on the lake and it refused to start. Today, however, in the barrel, when the guy came to look at the outboards...it started on the first pull and ran perfectly. My good luck. His bad luck, perhaps, somewhere down the road.
All gone. $120 in my pocket, and one running outboard to the new owner. I told him about the impossible to get solid state components, the needle and seat that only worked sometimes, and expressed shock that the Sea King started on the first pull. I told him that was not its normal habit, and showed him how he had to hold his mouth when he started it under normal circumstances.
I did throw in a plastic tank, two Chrysler fittings for the Ted Williams and the Sea King, and the tank was full of 24:1 mix.
He has my sympathies and my best wishes. He also has my 100% guarantee that the outboards would make it out of my sight.
I think I'll go boating tomorrow, just to hear that Johnson 6hp Fisherman run...nicely and quietly and smoothly.
The 1974 9.9 hp Ted Williams/Eska with the balky solid state ignition system would run sometimes and not other times. No parts available, so it has been lying on the garage floor for two years.
The 3 hp Eska which would run like a banshee...when the needle actually seated...and would fill the crankcase with fuel mix when it didn't. New needle. New seat, new float. Same results. You just never new what state it was going to be in until you tried to start it.
The 5 hp Sea King/Clinton, which almost always started. Almost. Except for the time the wind came up on the lake and it refused to start. Today, however, in the barrel, when the guy came to look at the outboards...it started on the first pull and ran perfectly. My good luck. His bad luck, perhaps, somewhere down the road.
All gone. $120 in my pocket, and one running outboard to the new owner. I told him about the impossible to get solid state components, the needle and seat that only worked sometimes, and expressed shock that the Sea King started on the first pull. I told him that was not its normal habit, and showed him how he had to hold his mouth when he started it under normal circumstances.
I did throw in a plastic tank, two Chrysler fittings for the Ted Williams and the Sea King, and the tank was full of 24:1 mix.
He has my sympathies and my best wishes. He also has my 100% guarantee that the outboards would make it out of my sight.
I think I'll go boating tomorrow, just to hear that Johnson 6hp Fisherman run...nicely and quietly and smoothly.
