Looking good without the cast/brace. It's always fun to ride with you around the yard - lots of obstacles! Thanks for another great cold/wet start. With luck you can easily clean the clogged passage! Have a great one Darren. Chuck in Kansas
not normally one to like or comment but i love your videos and am obsessed by your channel. I'm sitting here in the UK and found you via a VW video. I run a small business building and repairing VW busses, Combe Valley Campers (on Facebook and Instagram) and watch your videos even after Ive been wrenching all day. keep up the good work, the small engine builds and yard find ressurections are my favourite. Cheers, Leigh
Steve here from Canada , I must say that I love your friendly personality and how you include your viewers in your repairs .. I personally love to bring the past back in my repairs also . my Wife says that i'm a chronic tinkerer .... love your work sir ...
That brought back ancient memories of my dad teaching me to clean the Tillotson carburetor on our 1932 Johnson Seahorse Twin 2-1/2 horse outboard. The old Atlas sounds good. Nice one.
Absolutely my hero, doing what I WISH I could do, and having these skills (mostly with vintage motorcycles) is a major part of my Bucket List... So many questions I wish I could ask, but too famous at this point...
I beg to differ Mustie, that's not an Atlas/Sears. It's actually an ACME. I know because Wile. E. Coyote strapped one just like it to his back with the prop in a little red wagon filled with water. Unfortunately, the outboard and the little red wagon made it across the chasm but Wile.E didn't.
I had one of these as a kid, same as Evenrude for parts. The water pump was a round rubber that fit over the prop shaft that had a cam. It wobbled as it went around and made it pump. Likely needs cleaned up maybe soak the rubber to make it more ply able. When it ran good, you could start it with your thumb and finger, would run super slow and just tapping the flywheel with your hand would kill it, then. Just a flip of your wrist and it would fire right back up again.
That motor has some character! Mustie, we need you to stop sleeping so you can make more videos! I'm addicted. My wife probably thinks there's something wrong with me; I've been watching mustie videos for 3-4 hours a day.
I had an Elgin Sears 1 or 1.5 hp that looked very similar. It was built in the 50s. Loved that little motor. It had a half gallon gas tank and I could fish all day with it. Light, portable and tough.
I enjoy the videos and pick up some handy knowledge each time. Further I really enjoy the host’s manner as he makes one feel like we are a valued neighbor or friend over to help out in his garage.
Love waking up and seeing a new mustie videos! My family had a lake house once upon a time on lake winnipesaukee until it became a lake for millionaires and celebrities :( my grandma lived in Andover.
Mustie1 Andover or the lake? We had a cabin on governors island, you could see witches rocks right across the lake. Unfortunately we couldn't hold on to it, and like many other family cabins from the 50s have been replaced by mega mansions. Boo. Love the videos, by far the best channel on UA-cam!
Just started watching, mustie (maybe 4 videos so far) and enjoying your work and your manner very much. Love the look of this small outboard with the flat tank on top. If it was me I'd work on it til it runs like new just for what it is. What, 70 years old? Almost as old as me. That's a beautiful thing. Thanx for the very interesting videos.
I restored a 73 Sears sea King,I think it was a 7&half or 9)half ? But anyways it was a work of art,. I looked everywhere to find the drain&fill plug for lower unit oil. Couldn't find it! Asked all my friends to look,called all the marinas I could,was told to look up by the motor on top? No luck! Got on a 7 yr old chat post about them Sears moters and read that the 4 bolts under the prop accessed it and when I pulled it wolla! There it was! But it didn't take a lube,it took bearing greese! Wow, what a project.
I always used a 55 gallon drum with a piece of 2x6 as the transom. Just hung the outboard on the side of the drum, filled with water, and put the piece of 2x6 on the outside and screwed the two bolts down tight against the wood. Most of the motors would tend to blow the water out of the drum at high speed, so I cut a piece of plywood to fit the top and put a concrete block on it to hold it down. This always gave me enough water to submerge the water pump.
Mustie1 Hahaha theres quite a few of us i believe.......i love the videos Darren and really do look forward to the updates and the new projects etc keep up the good work Darren it is trully appreciated
These old outboards were probably great for mosquito control! They left an oil sheen on the pond that killed larvae and gave swimmers shiny hair, but hair gel made them obsolete .
I don"t think you will see water coming out those holes, maybe just a spit if your water is deep enough. Rule of thumb, you should be able to touch the motor casing without burning your fingers. I worked on outboards, about 10 years, 1980s. Can"t remember if that one had a rubber impeller.
OMG, It has been a long time since I have heard Gale outboard motor. I have only seen two. One was my grandparent's boat. Have a picture of me and my parents and my grand parents near the boat. I am guessing that the picture was taken in 1961 due to my size. Less than a year old. Ok, I gave my age away. The boat and motor are still in the family. I learned how to water ski behind it, 50 years ago. About 20 years ago, I did my first knee boarding behind the very same boat. The second and last time I ever saw one of those motors was in a boat repair shop. This was while I was picking up parts for my motor. From what I understand, that motor and Evinrude were the very same motors.
Nice and green there... **sigh** Great job on the little outboard. One of the funnest weekends we had out at the lake one year was a 12' john boat, a Montgomery Ward 3 hp outboard motor and a gallon of gas. Pulled each other around in a cove on pool floats and stayed drunk on Old Milwaukee for three days. Good times.
Pretty cool bud. I have a sears 2 stroker one also. Its an air cooled model with a square tank on top. Same deal i got it for around $30 put a carb kit in and cleaned carb. The darn thing runs more reliable than almost everything else i own lol. I like it for my flat back canoe by myself it moves along pretty good but would be nice to have actual neutral but it beats paddling any day lol. I do the same thing you do. I hate to see something that needs a little tlc and someone could use it go into the dump.
Can I just pop in and say that that's a cute little coffee stirrer? And it seems to have a decent amount of power for what it is! Just goes to show, older gear like that was designed to last, all this new plastic crap is literally designed to break so the company can sell more of them. Thanks for posting bud!
Hey Larry, I was starting to get used to the soft cast and almost asked him to get a tattoo that looked like the cast, but then I remembered I'm not a big fan of tatoos. LOL
Going over your great vids. I put 30w in my fuel mix motor in 1988.. It galded my piston up. Newer oils tolerate higher temps or engines dont tolerate older oils. Possible old recommendations of oil back when.
Yeah when I was a kid back in the early 60s and going fishing with my dad we had a motor like that and we called it the puddle jumper but I remember him putting it in a big barrel and clamping it and and let it run and stuff like that before fishing season start oh yeah good little motor!!!
Boy,,,that Aluminium gas tank would sure look nice with the paint removed and polished with a drill and a buffing wheel. The only Chrome outboard on the lake. Only I would that. It also would make a great looking kicker motor ( polished of coarse ) Alex from the Cape.. Keep up the great videos, I really look forward to them :-)
With all these outboards, you could stick one on the back of your pickup and have yourself a Toybota... :P And nice to see some mobile steak at the end there, makes me feel a little hungry to be honest, cos steak is good...
Now here is a whole different twist...I obtained a Waverunner for CHEAP. It is over 10 years old and the shift cable was rusted inoperable. I put some work into it to get it running and noted no water coming out the side port ( side of the hull ). I did some investigating and flushed out a mud dauber ( wasp ) from the output hose connection. Now it squirts good and just need to rebuild the starter. Brushes on commutator need new springs since the old ones have a bit of corrosion weakness. Always some issue when you let things age or not get used regularly. Jim K
Well of course a 70 year old outboard will still run!! I think those were fairly inexpensive even back in the day and yet look how long that motor has remained viable. My grandfather had a couple small old outboards at his lake house in Michigan that looked like that and I wish I still had them.
Great video as usual. I see the brace is off cool. I think depending on like you said the price of parts redoing the Atlas would make a good video or two.
That's it!......................Mustie1 I am going with you next time you go yard sale hopping. People here in Oklahoma are grinches with stuff they put in their yard sales.
Hey Mustie, I think you ought to be able to run that with TCW-3 2-cycle oil instead of the 30w stuff. I have a Puch 250 that originally took 30w for the mix, all us Puch guys have long since changed over to proper 2-cycle oil. You'll have a lot less fouling and carbon issues, and it should actually protect the motor better than the 30w. Something to think about.
I would love 1of these super old motors. I would absolutely use it... It is small. Portable. I would hook it up to an old johnboat and hit the little lakes.
I could be wrong, but here goes... I remember my uncle putting a full quart of 30 weight into a tank of gas for his mid 50s Johnson 25hp. (I'm 60) I have owned a few from the 50s to 70s. I just figured we have a lot better 2 stroke oil now than we did back then. I ran all my engines (regardless of age) on a 50 to 1 mix with modern oil and never had a failure. Again, I could be wrong, but I figure that even at 50 to 1 they were likely getting better lube with the newer oil. Even my dad ran his mid 60s 60 hp on a 50 to 1 mix.
Yes! A new Mustie1 video to watch while I eat dinner - excellent. I love to fix old stuff and I love to learn. Here I learn about fixing old stuff - what could be better? :) Curious what are people's thoughts on running a two-stroke out of gas by shutting off the fuel petcock? On one hand, you're doing something good by removing fuel from the carb. On the other hand, by shutting off the petcock, the engine will run lean just before it shuts off and since a 2-stroke cycle gets lubricating oil from the fuel, it is running lean on oil. On the one foot, if you do it at idle and under no or little load, sure its running lean on oil/fuel, but there is a good bit in there already, so with no load, seems unlikely to cause any damage?
Your motor reminds me of my uncles Champion motor (1950) I worked on it many times, it was a great little 3 1/2 Hp, until my brother stole it and sold it!
Out riding "till the cows come home" huh? Nice little putter motor. I remember that type and pulling on it till my arm was tired out in the middle of a lake (Mac says under his breath .... Only to find it and I was (cough cough) out of gas). Glad you got it running. Would like to have seen the bottom end expeller situation though? Oh well, maybe some other time.
Mustie,,,It has a rubber impeller,,,Remove prop and two screws,,,Lift the plate,,,Has a piston type pump,,They were used by a lot of manufacturers...Should be able to get one,, They are pretty cheap.... Old Guy
unfortunately i have not been able to locate one for my 43 Montgomery ward engine, it reminds me of a rotary engine the way the water pump is. I you know a website i can get it from let me know.
Chris Wooden ,,,Sea King AKA Wards,made by Gale a branch of OMC from 1940 up to the 1960,,Certain models,,,I do not know where you looked but www.vintageoutboard.com ,,,They have two parts listed that MAY work,,,part number 900040 or 900591,,,My son has some old outboards I will ask him if he has a source,,If he does I will reply again,,Good Luck,, Old Guy
Chris Wooden ,,This is the second reply,,,Try www.discount-marine-parts.com,,,They have info on every outboard ever made in the USA...You can get info by browsing Thier website or call them,,, Good Luck,,, Old Guy
Thanks a ton the 900591 looks like the ticket, I have been looking for the past year when my dad gave me the motor it was his fathers. Runs fine wide open but wont pump enough while trolling, I seized it once but thankfully they knew how to build a motor then and got it running and ran it rich for a few and pulled out of it and got me home.
That motor is so cool it'd be a shame not to fix it. If you can't fix it nobody can. I must admit I get all sorts of stupid thoughts when I watch your videos. I've got a jonboat at camp in Maine that motor would look good on...
part two on the lake is here, ua-cam.com/video/bxxzlNHgpBI/v-deo.html
Looking good without the cast/brace. It's always fun to ride with you around the yard - lots of obstacles! Thanks for another great cold/wet start. With luck you can easily clean the clogged passage! Have a great one Darren. Chuck in Kansas
not normally one to like or comment but i love your videos and am obsessed by your channel. I'm sitting here in the UK and found you via a VW video. I run a small business building and repairing VW busses, Combe Valley Campers (on Facebook and Instagram) and watch your videos even after Ive been wrenching all day. keep up the good work, the small engine builds and yard find ressurections are my favourite. Cheers, Leigh
Steve here from Canada , I must say that I love your friendly personality and how you include your viewers in your repairs .. I personally love to bring the past back in my repairs also . my Wife says that i'm a chronic tinkerer .... love your work
sir ...
Enjoyed the ride! I wasn't wearing a helmet. Don't tell my wife! Really love watching this channel grow. Has fast become my personal favorite.
That engine eas built just s few short years after the end of WW2, and you have it running 99% new. Well done!!
Just love those pretty rainbow colors you get in the water after a 2 stroke outboard's been running. Not sure the fish appreciate it though.
I like mustie's manical giggle when it sputters to life best show going!!
I agree, Donald. He sounds like the villain from some old cartoon!
"Yeeeah" !
Let's give it a squirt of the good stuff and see what happens.... it never fails!!
That brought back ancient memories of my dad teaching me to clean the Tillotson carburetor on our 1932 Johnson Seahorse Twin 2-1/2 horse outboard. The old Atlas sounds good. Nice one.
Excellent little outboard motor. I just salvaged a 10 foot aluminum flat bottom boat from the river. We use to have an outboard just like it.
Absolutely my hero, doing what I WISH I could do, and having these skills (mostly with vintage motorcycles) is a major part of my Bucket List... So many questions I wish I could ask, but too famous at this point...
Steve Hacker And take notes. They'll be A pop quiz later!
Very cool. I had a motor very similar on my old wooden row boat when I was a kid. Thanks for sharing!
I beg to differ Mustie, that's not an Atlas/Sears. It's actually an ACME.
I know because Wile. E. Coyote strapped one just like it to his back with the prop in a little red wagon filled with water.
Unfortunately, the outboard and the little red wagon made it across the chasm but
Wile.E didn't.
The joke of the day ! :)
He found this right next to a chasm. Coincidence, I think not.
I just watched that episode... and I agree it's an acme
I had one of these as a kid, same as Evenrude for parts. The water pump was a round rubber that fit over the prop shaft that had a cam. It wobbled as it went around and made it pump. Likely needs cleaned up maybe soak the rubber to make it more ply able. When it ran good, you could start it with your thumb and finger, would run super slow and just tapping the flywheel with your hand would kill it, then. Just a flip of your wrist and it would fire right back up again.
as an injured small engine mechanic, i'm enjoying watching your videos. Thank you for making them :)
Interesting little motor. Really like the scenic views you insert into your vids. The oil smoke reminds me of my old Canadian Husky chainsaw
That motor has some character! Mustie, we need you to stop sleeping so you can make more videos! I'm addicted. My wife probably thinks there's something wrong with me; I've been watching mustie videos for 3-4 hours a day.
you always find the coolest stuff to work on ! love it ! between you and ( Jonathan W. ) I cant get enough , I need to hit some yard sales . Thanx !
The most beautiful outboard I've ever seen.
That is a sweet find love those old antique vintage rope pull start out boards/ small engines
I had an Elgin Sears 1 or 1.5 hp that looked very similar. It was built in the 50s. Loved that little motor. It had a half gallon gas tank and I could fish all day with it. Light, portable and tough.
Have learned a lot about small engine repair that will be a new skill i can use. Your a great teacher. Thanks
Got one of these when I was 10 years old. Now 67. It was old when I got it. It does have a two blade rubber water pump impeller.
I enjoy the videos and pick up some handy knowledge each time. Further I really enjoy the host’s manner as he makes one feel like we are a valued neighbor or friend over to help out in his garage.
Love waking up and seeing a new mustie videos! My family had a lake house once upon a time on lake winnipesaukee until it became a lake for millionaires and celebrities :( my grandma lived in Andover.
l was there today
Mustie1 Andover or the lake? We had a cabin on governors island, you could see witches rocks right across the lake. Unfortunately we couldn't hold on to it, and like many other family cabins from the 50s have been replaced by mega mansions. Boo.
Love the videos, by far the best channel on UA-cam!
That little engine sounds great. Ready to cross the Atlantic...Bike sounds like a winner too... Take Care..
With all those beeves, you must be close to farm country, nice tour of Mustie's race track.
Would have loved to have seen those paint cans as a mural 12:20 Love your videos, back to watching
Just started watching, mustie (maybe 4 videos so far) and enjoying your work and your manner very much. Love the look of this small outboard with the flat tank on top. If it was me I'd work on it til it runs like new just for what it is. What, 70 years old? Almost as old as me. That's a beautiful thing. Thanx for the very interesting videos.
Mustie shifting sounded spot on the bike that turn out great the far cow is heading for greener grass waiting on parts is fun!!,thanks
Reminds me of the old 2 stroke seagull engines. Brilliant little engines
Love the "Mister Evil" laugh EVERY time a motor kicks over!
Glad to see the wrist brace off.
Nice getting this quality machine running again, they sure made quality back then instead for the junk now days.
I'm glad you could hear me all the way from Australia (despite being months later as well).
As small as it is it sure beats rowing
The Mustie 1 Margarita Mixer! You have named it well Darin! Fear not if your Margarita is a touch oily, we only use food grade 30 weight oil. 8-))
I restored a 73 Sears sea King,I think it was a 7&half or 9)half ? But anyways it was a work of art,. I looked everywhere to find the drain&fill plug for lower unit oil. Couldn't find it! Asked all my friends to look,called all the marinas I could,was told to look up by the motor on top? No luck! Got on a 7 yr old chat post about them Sears moters and read that the 4 bolts under the prop accessed it and when I pulled it wolla! There it was! But it didn't take a lube,it took bearing greese! Wow, what a project.
This video makes me want to find an outboard motor just to fix it and I don't even have a boat.
I actually did this.
I always used a 55 gallon drum with a piece of 2x6 as the transom. Just hung the outboard on the side of the drum, filled with water, and put the piece of 2x6 on the outside and screwed the two bolts down tight against the wood. Most of the motors would tend to blow the water out of the drum at high speed, so I cut a piece of plywood to fit the top and put a concrete block on it to hold it down. This always gave me enough water to submerge the water pump.
Coffee finished, video over, time to go into my shop to do something fun , keep me coming, great job mustie!!!!
Oops. That's em not me
Alot of times you ll find a screen cylinder on the end of the shut off in the tank. As for the water discharge you got me this motor is new to me.
You are deffinetly the kind of mechanic i need to bring my 93 eobd f150 to.
Very good job mate, I love vintage stuff!
Hi Darren i really do appreciate your videos and the work that goes into making them thank you from everyone in the UK 👍
thats allot of you, no wonder l am getting so many views.
Mustie1 Hahaha theres quite a few of us i believe.......i love the videos Darren and really do look forward to the updates and the new projects etc keep up the good work Darren it is trully appreciated
These old outboards were probably great for mosquito control! They left an oil sheen on the pond that killed larvae and gave swimmers shiny hair, but hair gel made them obsolete .
I don"t think you will see water coming out those holes, maybe just a spit if your water is deep enough. Rule of thumb, you should be able to touch the motor casing without burning your fingers. I worked on outboards, about 10 years, 1980s. Can"t remember if that one had a rubber impeller.
Mustie's wife runs a book with the neighbors on which contraption will be flying around the garden today .
Rachel down the road won today . 🏍 😂
OMG, It has been a long time since I have heard Gale outboard motor. I have only seen two. One was my grandparent's boat. Have a picture of me and my parents and my grand parents near the boat. I am guessing that the picture was taken in 1961 due to my size. Less than a year old. Ok, I gave my age away. The boat and motor are still in the family. I learned how to water ski behind it, 50 years ago. About 20 years ago, I did my first knee boarding behind the very same boat. The second and last time I ever saw one of those motors was in a boat repair shop. This was while I was picking up parts for my motor.
From what I understand, that motor and Evinrude were the very same motors.
I had a 1 I/2 horse Elgin outboard when I was a kid. It got me around with my duck sneak box.
Hey Mustie1, I like when it works and you go Yeah! with a little chuckle and dance.
LOL Awesome gotta love old outboards and children must play !!
Good to see another runner. I guess you need one of those deals like the gas cap has for the screwdriver. :) Always fun to see whats gonna run next.
That little outboard sounds good and the 125 too! Nice work
Never a doubt Mate!! Well done!!☺
Nice and green there... **sigh** Great job on the little outboard. One of the funnest weekends we had out at the lake one year was a 12' john boat, a Montgomery Ward 3 hp outboard motor and a gallon of gas. Pulled each other around in a cove on pool floats and stayed drunk on Old Milwaukee for three days. Good times.
Pretty cool bud. I have a sears 2 stroker one also. Its an air cooled model with a square tank on top. Same deal i got it for around $30 put a carb kit in and cleaned carb. The darn thing runs more reliable than almost everything else i own lol. I like it for my flat back canoe by myself it moves along pretty good but would be nice to have actual neutral but it beats paddling any day lol. I do the same thing you do. I hate to see something that needs a little tlc and someone could use it go into the dump.
Can I just pop in and say that that's a cute little coffee stirrer? And it seems to have a decent amount of power for what it is! Just goes to show, older gear like that was designed to last, all this new plastic crap is literally designed to break so the company can sell more of them. Thanks for posting bud!
Always a pleasure to see another Mustie video.
glad to see the wrist better
Hey Larry, I was starting to get used to the soft cast and almost asked him to get a tattoo that looked like the cast, but then I remembered I'm not a big fan of tatoos. LOL
Going over your great vids. I put 30w in my fuel mix motor in 1988.. It galded my piston up. Newer oils tolerate higher temps or engines dont tolerate older oils. Possible old recommendations of oil back when.
Yeah when I was a kid back in the early 60s and going fishing with my dad we had a motor like that and we called it the puddle jumper but I remember him putting it in a big barrel and clamping it and and let it run and stuff like that before fishing season start oh yeah good little motor!!!
Good going Mustie. You got the old sucker good.
Another morning with Mustie...... Great.
Boy,,,that Aluminium gas tank would sure look nice with the paint removed and polished with a drill and a buffing wheel. The only Chrome outboard on the lake. Only I would that. It also would make a great looking kicker motor ( polished of coarse ) Alex from the Cape.. Keep up the great videos, I really look forward to them :-)
With all these outboards, you could stick one on the back of your pickup and have yourself a Toybota... :P
And nice to see some mobile steak at the end there, makes me feel a little hungry to be honest, cos steak is good...
Now here is a whole different twist...I obtained a Waverunner for CHEAP. It is over 10 years old and the shift cable was rusted inoperable. I put some work into it to get it running and noted no water coming out the side port ( side of the hull ). I did some investigating and flushed out a mud dauber ( wasp ) from the output hose connection. Now it squirts good and just need to rebuild the starter. Brushes on commutator need new springs since the old ones have a bit of corrosion weakness. Always some issue when you let things age or not get used regularly. Jim K
Well of course a 70 year old outboard will still run!! I think those were fairly inexpensive even back in the day and yet look how long that motor has remained viable. My grandfather had a couple small old outboards at his lake house in Michigan that looked like that and I wish I still had them.
Great looking antique, if nothing else.
Its techno from 68 years ago.This should be called Sea Biscuit....like the sea horse on the old Diver Dan series.This needs a Farnicastaff Darrell
That lower unit looks to be an Elgin ! Nice little putt putts for sure don’t ya know ! All Gale is is a division of OMC which is Evinrude back then !
Great video as usual. I see the brace is off cool. I think depending on like you said the price of parts redoing the Atlas would make a good video or two.
thanks for the ride around your garden
Love your videos
surpriseing it came apart that easy--no stuck screws.
*@**15:19* Very nice painting. Thanks for sharing.
That little engine sounds healthy!
That's it!......................Mustie1 I am going with you next time you go yard sale hopping. People here in Oklahoma are grinches with stuff they put in their yard sales.
Everyone here thinks their junk is gold. (fellow Okie)
Hey Mustie, I think you ought to be able to run that with TCW-3 2-cycle oil instead of the 30w stuff. I have a Puch 250 that originally took 30w for the mix, all us Puch guys have long since changed over to proper 2-cycle oil. You'll have a lot less fouling and carbon issues, and it should actually protect the motor better than the 30w. Something to think about.
Great little egg beater/coffee stirrer.
That is a sweet little runner Darrin ! I like the Honda better though .. LOL.. Thumbs up .. I gotta get one of mine out and ride now..
I would love 1of these super old motors. I would absolutely use it... It is small. Portable. I would hook it up to an old johnboat and hit the little lakes.
I could be wrong, but here goes... I remember my uncle putting a full quart of 30 weight into a tank of gas for his mid 50s Johnson 25hp. (I'm 60) I have owned a few from the 50s to 70s. I just figured we have a lot better 2 stroke oil now than we did back then. I ran all my engines (regardless of age) on a 50 to 1 mix with modern oil and never had a failure. Again, I could be wrong, but I figure that even at 50 to 1 they were likely getting better lube with the newer oil. Even my dad ran his mid 60s 60 hp on a 50 to 1 mix.
Sweet sound, loving it.
Enjoyed the vid thanks watched it while eating dinner
If it ain't smokin' it's broken! Nice find.
"Run last year" Where he filled it with leaded gas from the esso station then saw the motion pictures for a nickle.
Haha!
🤣 he went to a Talkie then went to the soda jerk for a malt, in 1952.
48/49, great engine, very interesting
Yes! A new Mustie1 video to watch while I eat dinner - excellent. I love to fix old stuff and I love to learn. Here I learn about fixing old stuff - what could be better? :)
Curious what are people's thoughts on running a two-stroke out of gas by shutting off the fuel petcock? On one hand, you're doing something good by removing fuel from the carb. On the other hand, by shutting off the petcock, the engine will run lean just before it shuts off and since a 2-stroke cycle gets lubricating oil from the fuel, it is running lean on oil. On the one foot, if you do it at idle and under no or little load, sure its running lean on oil/fuel, but there is a good bit in there already, so with no load, seems unlikely to cause any damage?
Almost forgot how my old SL lifted the front wheel like that.4 stroke torque back when everyone else was running 2 strokes.
Your motor reminds me of my uncles Champion motor (1950) I worked on it many times, it was a great little 3 1/2 Hp, until my brother stole it and sold it!
Out riding "till the cows come home" huh?
Nice little putter motor. I remember that type and pulling on it till my arm was tired out in the middle of a lake (Mac says under his breath .... Only to find it and I was (cough cough) out of gas). Glad you got it running. Would like to have seen the bottom end expeller situation though? Oh well, maybe some other time.
all looking very clean sir. :) thanks for the vid and the company.
The cows in the meadow say 'Muuuustieeeeeee'...
Mustie,,,It has a rubber impeller,,,Remove prop and two screws,,,Lift the plate,,,Has a piston type pump,,They were used by a lot of manufacturers...Should be able to get one,, They are pretty cheap.... Old Guy
unfortunately i have not been able to locate one for my 43 Montgomery ward engine, it reminds me of a rotary engine the way the water pump is. I you know a website i can get it from let me know.
Chris Wooden ,,,Sea King AKA Wards,made by Gale a branch of OMC from 1940 up to the 1960,,Certain models,,,I do not know where you looked but www.vintageoutboard.com ,,,They have two parts listed that MAY work,,,part number 900040 or 900591,,,My son has some old outboards I will ask him if he has a source,,If he does I will reply again,,Good Luck,, Old Guy
Chris Wooden ,,This is the second reply,,,Try www.discount-marine-parts.com,,,They have info on every outboard ever made in the USA...You can get info by browsing Thier website or call them,,, Good Luck,,, Old Guy
Thanks a ton the 900591 looks like the ticket, I have been looking for the past year when my dad gave me the motor it was his fathers. Runs fine wide open but wont pump enough while trolling, I seized it once but thankfully they knew how to build a motor then and got it running and ran it rich for a few and pulled out of it and got me home.
Chris Wooden You are welcome,,,I hope it works out for you...Old Guy
I came across an old Seagull which called for 10/1 !!!
Probably wouldn't need that with modern oils but.....
Nice to see the wrist brace off Mustie.
yep i had a couple of seagulls, ran them on 20-1 with a modern semi 2 stroke oil, ran just fine, much less smelly
Peter Fletcher a lot were converted on the villers carb type to run 25:1. Mine still runs 10:1 😳
Beautiful property.
Nice to see the Honda running
I run 25 to one in my 1955 bsa winged wheel. But it could probably do less because it it better oil than it used to be. I use proper 2 stroke oil.
A quick tour of the property, including steaks a grazing. ;-)
That motor is so cool it'd be a shame not to fix it. If you can't fix it nobody can. I must admit I get all sorts of stupid thoughts when I watch your videos. I've got a jonboat at camp in Maine that motor would look good on...