Brought home this 1914 Evinrude the other day. It’s hurtin’ fer certain, but not beyond hope. Gas tank looks like its bounced around some, the entire exhaust is missing, and it lacks one transom screw & pad, but the rest is mostly there. it spins nice and free, compression is really good, and the lower unit might be useable as-is.

Worked on it some today, and have failed to get it to generate any type of spark, even though it’s got the original cracked coil in it (that apparently is ultra desirable, heehee). Anyway, I’ve never worked on one of these, so this is the first time for me to see a 1914 Evinrude coil in person. Odd sort of set-up, but typical of flywheel magneto motors of that era. So far, rudimentary testing shows that there is continuity between the small bare wires that are routed about the stack of laminations in the centre. I’ve not detected continuity when testing the high tension lead, but I’m not exactly sure how to go about it either.

Hoping that somebody can make a suggestion on the proper way to test this coil. I was not comfortable with trying a coil power test with the Merc-O-tronic until I know for sure how to hook it up. The Model 98 manual seems to lack a diagram for this magneto… must be some mistake…

Best,
PM T2