reelfishin
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I picked up what appeared to be a 1973 40 HP motor at a yard sale this weekend. It's decals looked to be the same as my 1973 and it has good compression. The first thing I noticed was that the motor bracket looked odd, it had no bolt holes only two clamps, and I had assumed that the swivel pin was just seized. Once I got it home and started to work at getting the swivel pin free, I noticed two things, for one, the add on shaft length adapter is about 2 inches longer than the one on my other motor, making this about a 22' shaft length, second, when I took the lower pivot shaft and mount off I realized that the pivot shaft is D shaped, as is the bushing. The pivot pin can't pivot since it sits in a fixed hole. There is no steer tube, no tilt hinge either. It hangs with two clamps, can't steer and can't tilt. I put it back together and hung it on stand and after cleaning the points and a fresh tank of fuel it runs good with no issues.
My question is, what could this be for? It's obviously made for a fixed install with no trim or tilt ability and no steering. It also has a rather large 4 blade prop on it. It don't look to have been used in quite some time and the only other boat items the seller had was a few old life saver rings and some very early cloth style life vests. No boat or other motor parts. The controls are older twin stick controls, all electrical is on the motor, and the cables are pretty short under 8', so the driver most likely was pretty close to the motor if not directly in reach of it to reach the starter button and kill switch on the motor. It has no recoil start option.
I pretty much just bought it for parts but it turned out to be good runner.
There is no tag on the bracket and the freeze plug has only a serial number, no model number. I looked at each models parts list but I don't see any with a different bracket, steer pin, or bushing either. The motor mount and bracket are clean and look factory but they are a slightly different shade of blue than the rest of the motor. At a quick look it really don't look any different than my other 40 hp other than the lack of movement.
It has a solid aluminum block bolted in place of the latch and tilt pin fixing the tilt position permanently and preventing movement. There is also no tiller handle, so steering was not an option by normal means. By the added length I'd say sail boat but even a sail boat would need to steer it's kicker motor?
My question is, what could this be for? It's obviously made for a fixed install with no trim or tilt ability and no steering. It also has a rather large 4 blade prop on it. It don't look to have been used in quite some time and the only other boat items the seller had was a few old life saver rings and some very early cloth style life vests. No boat or other motor parts. The controls are older twin stick controls, all electrical is on the motor, and the cables are pretty short under 8', so the driver most likely was pretty close to the motor if not directly in reach of it to reach the starter button and kill switch on the motor. It has no recoil start option.
I pretty much just bought it for parts but it turned out to be good runner.
There is no tag on the bracket and the freeze plug has only a serial number, no model number. I looked at each models parts list but I don't see any with a different bracket, steer pin, or bushing either. The motor mount and bracket are clean and look factory but they are a slightly different shade of blue than the rest of the motor. At a quick look it really don't look any different than my other 40 hp other than the lack of movement.
It has a solid aluminum block bolted in place of the latch and tilt pin fixing the tilt position permanently and preventing movement. There is also no tiller handle, so steering was not an option by normal means. By the added length I'd say sail boat but even a sail boat would need to steer it's kicker motor?
