1957 Evinrude 18HP Running! + 1961 Johnson 40HP tour + OEM Brochures + my Motor Collection!
Channel: bellarmine33
Date: 10/08/2016

Here's a video showing a quick glance at the OMC motors in my collection, with 2 in particular I just picked up for a song:  

- A 1957 18HP Evinrude junker, model 15922 with FACTORY electric start, that turns out to RUN very nice!  My FIRST evinrude.
- A 1961 Johnson 40HP RDS-23, very nice looking condition, with a somewhat corroded power-head.

The video starts out with me doing a super quick-n-dirty startup of the Evinrude.  I literally just brought it home, filed the points, put 2 good plugs in, connected up my pressure tank and it started right up - Great fun!  Since this video, I've put a welch plug in the water passage, cleaned up the fuel lines, doubled the wire gauge to the starter, and managed to get my Johnson 18hp propeller to fit.  I took a file and filed around the weed cutter flange on the lower unit, just cleaned up the surface and took it down a few thou, and the prop now fits fine.  Maybe I'll take it for a quick drive soon!

Next I ask a few questions about the 40hp, I appreciate any advice you might give me.  My biggest concern is how the powerhead got so much strange corrosion under the shroud, yet none in the cylinders; and if anyone thinks it is either salvageable or a parts motor.

I also show the 2nd motor I've ever owned, my 1959 Johnson 18HP FD-13, which is still in pieces waiting for me to decide what to do about one of the cylinders having low compression.  Perhaps I'll use my nicer looking Johnson 18hp external parts with the nice running Evinrude 18hp internal parts, make a good motor out of both and sell off the rest.

Finally, I end with a quick look at my Evinrude/Johnson Brochure Collection on my hard drive, for all the motors I have at the moment.  I have Johnson years from 1927 - 2005, and Evinrude from 1909 - 2011, so if anyone wants a PDF copy of the brochures let me know.  I got them all from a website in funny .SWF format, so I convert them to JPGs and then print them into a PDF using Acrobat Distiller, pretty slick-looking when I'm done.

Thanks for reading this, hope you enjoy the movie - Cheers!