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The aluminum retaining ring should be flat side up and just needs to oriented so that the holes in the ring would align with the mount holes in the magneto with the top cylinder coil toward the front of the motor. I’ve never known what the notch in the retaining ring was for. When you install the flywheel is the magneto plate free to rotate? One time I got things all bound up when I installed the magneto and had the throttle link arm folded up under the mag plate. See attached pic to be sure the link arm isn’t folded underneath and making the mag plate and flywheel sit high. Abother possibility might be a bad taper on the flywheel hub. I had one with a wallowed taper where somebody had installed a shim piece in the hub in an attempt to fix it – see pic. The shim piece made the flywheel sit high on one side. Finally, is the flywheel key properly aligned and engaged?
Bob
1937 Champion D2C Deluxe Lite Twin
1954 Johnson CD-11
1955 Johnson QD-16
1957 Evinrude Fastwin 18
1957 Evinrude 3022
1958 Johnson QD-19
1958 Johnson FD-12
1959 Johnson QD-20“Every 20 minute job is only a broken bolt away from a 3-day project.”
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I finished this one up last November after the test barrel was
put away for the winter, so it’s the first time in the water for this one
since I had it for a few years.This one has the neutral shift, which I was suspicious of if
it was working correctly, as I could hear the motor revving
up. Turns out that it was the prop slipping on it’s plastic hub.
I “think” I got it fixed after this video, but have not retested it yet.This motor had the “tall” Elgin water pump impeller, that was shot,
and I replaced it with two mercury impellers stacked together,
on a suggestion from Brian Wilcox. It seems to pump water great.
It has a tiny tell-tale at the exhaust cover, but blow out lots
of water out of a series of holes in the exhaust, just above the
water line.Prepare to be boarded!
some prop shops can repair it but…. it is old and they may or may not have what it takes.
ask around
seems I saw a solution some time ago …drill a hole (off center) across the prop body and hub and insert a pin or screw to lock hub and prop together. 2 likely need to balance the prop !
change the propeller shaft drive pin for a brass pin because you will no longer have hub slipping to protect the prop shaft and gears
Search Results for ‘prop hub fix’ – Antique Outboard Motor Club,Inc (aomci.org)
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Followed the instructions and sure enough the prop is slipping on the rubber hub. Is there a way to fix this or do I need to replace the prop.
Thank you for all the replies I appreciate it.
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hi all, I have a 1959 Gale Buccaneer 12hp outboard that I have been working on. I received it as a “gimme” non-runner with the purchase of a boat. It was mildly seized (freed up very easily) when I got it as well as shot (cracked) coils. Here is what I have done.
– New coils, points, condensers, cut back HT leads to fresh copper and installed boots and clips. Timing set via point-gap method and then verified with the timing marks and the ohmmeter small resistance change. Seems to be very close but I don’t have the pointer fixture to be certain. plugs gapped to .030″
– Carb kit including new float, needle/seat, new gaskets, needle valve packing and very thorough cleaning
– inspect fuel pump screen diaphragms etc. no cracks, looks like a recent replacement pumpI have a service manual and after going through and setting everything, the motor runs pretty well in the tank, though I couldn’t really test it at high throttle due to the size of the barrel, cavitation etc.
The motor is mounted on a 12 ft aluminum runabout similar to an Alumacraft, with cable steering and forward controls. This issue I’m having is that it won’t rev and max speed is about 6kts. Won’t even try to plane. I tried changing the angle setting, got max rpm via the high speed jet, but it just seems to lug and won’t rev.
Compression is 80psi in both cylinders, and as far as I can tell it has the stock prop, which I believe is part # 277443 – a 9×10 3 blade. Prop has some damage with a couple of bites in the blades near the hub.
I thought with the above that it should run better than that, so was a bit shocked at the poor performance. Starts easily and will run nicely at idle and part throttle.
I would appreciate any thoughts or ideas, or what I may have overlooked or got wrong.
Thanks
Bud
1959 Gale Buccaneer 12
1973 Mercury 75 7.5hp
