Topic: Poor Thing! – Antique Outboard Motor Club,Inc

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September 9, 2016 at 9:28 am #5210
ausob-collector
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I came across this horrible doing when browsing our Australian Gumtree.

Anyone seen anything like it before?

Cheers
BP

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September 9, 2016 at 10:10 am #43661
frankr
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That’s the new aftermarket lightweight racing flywheel.
September 9, 2016 at 11:09 am #43663
2fast4me
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I guess that’s one way or getting at the coils.
Not the preferred method.

2Fast4Me
September 9, 2016 at 11:10 am #43664
Randy in Tampa
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looks like somebody cut apart and then broke off the flywheel so they could salvage the coils and points, I guess he didn’t have a flywheel puller 😯
September 9, 2016 at 11:21 am #43665
vintin
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That’s a ‘knuckle slicer’.

Just reach in and give it a firm twist.
September 9, 2016 at 12:39 pm #43669
kerry
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Am I seeing this wrong, or did he also "salvage" the carb, crankcase, pistons and rods? An awful lot of daylight showing in the first pic….

If you have too many, AND not enough, you're a collector.
September 9, 2016 at 1:22 pm #43671
bullie
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The gas cap looks to be in pretty good shape.
September 9, 2016 at 2:55 pm #43678
outbdnut2
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All is not lost! Cobble an old automotive generator wired to run like a motor to the top and you will have an electric trolling motor!
Dave
September 9, 2016 at 2:58 pm #43679
garry-in-michigan
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I have seen that happen when an auto mechanic used a gear puller (which hooks to the edges of the flywheel) to remove the flywheel in order to work on the magnito. The flywheel came off, but the flywheel hub didn’t! . . ., 😀
September 9, 2016 at 3:02 pm #43680
outbdnut2
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Like the one Garry saw, some years ago when I didn’t know any better, I cracked off a flywheel on a 1958 35 Johnson using an automotive brake drum puller. I knew a flywheel puller was the way to go but didn’t have a suitable one and wanted it off NOW!
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