I have a 1948 Sea King (I Believe it is a ’48) Model # 94GG9003A, I bought at a yard sale, and had a friend clean up and I used it on a small pond I lived on in Vermont. I recently moved to the Raystown Dam area in Pennsylvania and am putting together an electric boat, using an old 1960 aluminum row boat, 2 Sears, Ted Williams, Shakespeare trolling motors, which will be hooked up to a solar panel on a canopy, and that will trickle charge the batteries to run the old trolling motors as they discharge, having hooked them up in a series. I haven’t run the old Sea King in years, and want to just clean out the gunk and get it running again as a back up, since the lake is pretty big, and if there is a catastrophic failure with the electrical, I don’t want to row home.

My Brother in law tells me to run pure octane through it to start it up. The old guy at the maria who won’t touch it says run kerosene through the cylinders to loosen up rust. It’s not seized up. It’s just been sitting ( In my living room, as I didn’t want it getting cold) for a few years.

My question for the forum is: What would you recommend to put it back in service? And I don’t mind the dents in the tank, but I would like to repaint it.

I imagine high temp engine paint for the motor, metallic silver for the lower unit, and red enamel for the tank? My real concern is that I don’t screw up the engine. Or where do I get a nice vintage maroon?

Do I really need to drain and replace the lower unit lube? It doesn’t seem to have leaked out at all.