Champion blue ribbon outboard

[cajuncook1]

I believe your outboard uses Bendix Scintilla coil. (hopefully a club member with good bit of experience with this brand motor can verify). Club member Jim Judkins is the man talk to get a Bendix Scintilla coil. He is a good guy to do business with and he a good standing club member.

oldoutboardjim@hotmail.com

Have you tested compression on your motor. Please replace the flywheel and rope sheave and crank it by hand. Please don’t use a power drill to spin it. It will give false high readings. You said you were working with your dad in a motor shop, then he should have compression gauge. Please let us know what the compression reading is.

Your coil will have to be replace. Hopefully Jim can get you fixed up with a coil. Please use copper core 7mm plug wires. You should be able find them at lawn mower shop or tractor supply store. The older tractors used copper core wire. No automobile plug wires.

That should get you started with assessing your motor.

Remember compression, spark, and fuel delivery are key factors to get your motor running.

Hopefully the parts diagram will help you sort things out. It is also helpful when you are taking things apart to take pictures as you go. It help with remembering how things go back together. Also get a bunch of cheap plastic zip locks to organize parts together, so they are not lost. Easy to loose stuff. Label the bag and that will help you stay organized.

cajuncook1

[ausob-collector]

Whitters1212,

Welcome!
Your motor seems to be in relatively good condition apart from your ignition woes.
As the other members have said, you can get replacement coils for your motor – also, when you get everything back together don’t forget to clean and reset the points (you probably already are aware of that after the evinrude but just in case…)

This looks like a promising start to the antique outboarding hobby, soon you’ll come across another motor that catches your eye and comes home with you, and then another and then yet another until you have a nice assortment of outboards.

Help is always on hand here, so if you have any questions at all ask away!
Maybe you should also consider joining the club at some point in time.

All the best

Cheers
BP

[Tubs]

A "Boathouse Repair" is one that done without having tools or the skills to do it properly.

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[jcrigan]

Some of the old chainsaws use the bendix coil. I am not sure if they would fit in your motor though. Check on ebay for pictures of old chainsaw coils, and when an old chainsaw comes into your dads shop, you may find a cheaper replacement.

[jcrigan]

Check out the Disston coils on ebay.

[outbdnut2]

That 1J is a great motor to start your hobby with – easy to work on and operate. It has an aluminum water pump impeller that never wears out. Put heavy , thick grease in the lower unit – I use water-resistant lithium wheel bearing grease made for boat trailer wheel bearings in mine – take off the front of the lower unit by removing the screws in that vertical piece of metal behind the prop and pack the grease in with a putty knife (the guy, Lyle Swanson, who sold Champion parts and repaired them until the mid 1980s put me on to that method). Champion went out of business in 1958.
Dave

[whitters1212]

Thanks everyone for your help, especially cajuncook1 for all the manual sheets and the parts breakdown, after looking through them I am now some what familiar with the ignition system, and am awful sure that I am missing the idle mixture screw/needle for the Tillotson carb, I will have a look online to see if I can find a coil, unless someone else can direct me to a seller that has one, and I got some pictures of my evinrude the other day as I keep it at my grandpas house to putt around on his medium size lake, it’s not fast, but it’s fun to play around, I recently took the lower housing off cleaned the garbage out and greased it with some water proof grease recommended for evinrude outboards

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