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A boat and motor package is being sold locally and I had to look twice at the main mover hanging on the transom.
A real air cooled ‘lawnmower on a stick’!
I’m trying to understand what’s going on at the hybrid joint. There seems to be some kind of covering over the area of connection between the mower engine and the Lightwin base gasket area. It actually looks kind of professional but I can’t tell what the guy used to do it. He could have at least used a whole lower unit, though….Also, did he actually install what looks like a Japanese outboard’s stop switch on the engine cowl or is that standard lawnmower?
Long live American manufacturing!
Doesn’t everyone have one of those old mixed up thingies? Here is my Water Boy, I have not gotten it to run so good yet. I am ready to tear it apart and scrap it. It kept me busy a couple winters ago. I made it from a 14hp Evinrude leg. Don’t laugh to hard!
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if your gonna do it wrong! do it right!
Water Boy!
On the other hand, one of the good things about a Lawnboy lawn mower is that it smells both like fresh cut grass AND being out in your boat….So a Lawnboy outboard is smell-redundant! A few thoughts about the one pictured in this thread: Like has been said, the horse power is low. If you’re trying to drive a 14 hp prop, that may be problem #1. Problem #2 is more subtle….Remember that on a lawn mower, the blade acts as part of the over-all flywheel effect. I will never forget as a kid, trying to run a vertical shaft, Briggs and Stratton, without a blade. It would barely even start or run, until I put the blade back on. Then it was fine.
Long live American manufacturing!
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