Rescuing a 75 Year Old Outboard Motor WILL IT START?!

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Rescuing a 75 Year Old Outboard Motor WILL IT START?!

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4 ай бұрын

This video we work on a 75 year old Montgomery Ward Outboard motor. Its a sea king 5 hp and we will try and bring it back to life. Watch until the end to find out "will it run?" Thanks for watching!

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@kalleklp7291 4 күн бұрын

I'm amazed the coils were actually in this good condition. I've seen a Johnson Seahorse from 1964 with completely junk coils in. All cracked and rusted up. Cool, you got it running. :)

@MeleeMotors 4 күн бұрын

Right! I was pleasantly surprised for sure. Thanks for watching :)

@henrychinaski5223 3 ай бұрын

Oh man! Brings back such memories! I bought a 16' steel V bottom boat with this motor. The motor was seized and I spent a week or so soaking down the cylinders and tapping the pistons with a wooden dowel until they freed up. I (like you) cleaned the carb, checked for spark got this bad boy to fire. I had a lot of fun fishing out of that boat and the little Sea King did a great job. The first run was in January and the lake was about to ice over. Me and two buddies were young (and dumb) and we launched in 28 degree weather. The motor ran great and we spent about 20 minutes on the shake down cruise. The bow was iced up at the end of the run. All of this happened in '76. About 5 years later I traded the boat and motor for a KZ-400...what a mistake. Too bad KZfaq wasn't around back then. I would have made a vid like you've done. Good job, brother! PS...get yourself a brass brazing rod the same diameter as the prop shear pin. I cut myself a bunch of pins because the first time the prop sheared I had to use a fish hook as a temporary shear pin.

@MeleeMotors 3 ай бұрын

Hell yeah, thats awesome! Thanks for sharing, sounds like great memories. And thanks for that tip, I'll definitely use that one👍

@seanclement2264 2 ай бұрын

i have one of these and it runs so incredibly well i was really surprised

@cannedheat2264 3 ай бұрын

When things were built tough.

@MeleeMotors 3 ай бұрын

Right!

@DeMelly__ 3 ай бұрын

It's alive!

@saltynlit 3 ай бұрын

Cool old school boat motor!

@philliphall5198 3 ай бұрын

I had one just like it on a flat bottom 14 foot boat and used it for 40 years 😊 bring back great memories

@MeleeMotors 3 ай бұрын

Awesome, thanks for watching!

@centauri61032 4 ай бұрын

Montgomery Ward was a catalog sales store back in the day, similar to Sears. They didn't get quite as big as Sears, and start selling things like houses. But the did sell just about anything else a person would need in their home, from clothing to appliances to tools, just like Sears did. They probably also sold the boat that would have gone with this motor. They also had some retail stores in towns, but again, not as many as Sears. They later just changed their name to Wards to try to survive. But eventually fell into bankruptcy. What remains of the company was bought out by Colony Brands in Monroe, Wisconsin (home of The Swiss Colony shops of cheese, sausage, swiss candies and pastries). And you can still find remnants of Montgomery Ward there. Back in their catalog days, Wards would sell products from many other companies. Which would sometimes be rebranded with their name. But they also designed and made many products of their own. You would have to do some research to find out if this motor was a Wards original, or if it was made buy someone else.

@MeleeMotors 4 ай бұрын

Wow. Thanks for the info! Super cool. I'll have to look more into now!

@centauri61032 3 ай бұрын

@@MeleeMotors No problem. One other bit of worthless trivia... Wards, Sears (and later JC Penney) used to put out catalogs that you could find in almost every house in America. They were by far the three main mail order giants around. The Sears and Penney's catalogs were printed on the same size paper, and the Sears catalog was usually about twice as many pages (thick) as Penny's. But Wards decided to have their catalogs printed on pages that were smaller than the other two. They did not make the print or images on the pages smaller, so they had fewer items in each page. But this meant that the catalog needed more pages to fit all of the items in. So it made the catalog thicker (thicker than Penney's but still not quite as thick as Sears), which gave the appearance of having more items available than they really did. Also, since the catalog was a smaller dimension, it usually got stacked on top of the other two catalogs in the homes. It was a marvelous marketing ploy for the days to try and get people to pick up the Wards catalog first to order items from. And also to cover the Sears and Penny's catalogs while they were sitting on the table, making the Wards catalog plainly visible on top of the catalog stack.

@MeleeMotors 3 ай бұрын

@centauri61032 that's awesome! Simpler times back then. Thanks for the info, and thanks for watching!

@henrychinaski5223 3 ай бұрын

@@MeleeMotors And, according to my mother, all three catalogues spent their last days in the outhouse for use as TP. Mom said the color pages were the worst...hahaha!

@philliphall5198 3 ай бұрын

I still got a set of there wrenches and still use them every once in awhile, I guess I’m really 73 years old now Lololo 😊

@briansmythe3000 3 ай бұрын

Great Score Bro ,Love ol Boat Motors ,No Frozen Bolts or Nothing Classic Well done

@MeleeMotors 3 ай бұрын

Thanks bro!

@KaterKomPuter 3 ай бұрын

Nice little engine, love it

@michaelmathews295 3 ай бұрын

Ward's branded their outboards as Sea-King. My aunt had one similar to this one. I think they were manufactured by Scott-Atwater.

@ALVintageOutboards 3 ай бұрын

This one is an OMC/Gale made Sea King

@bluebtoot 13 күн бұрын

thats an old 'johnson' outboard from back when they were making outboards for montgomery wards

@johndemeen5575 3 ай бұрын

Monkey Wards, giant store on university street in St.Paul,Minnesota. From St.Paul,Minnesota.

@aarongrabowski3775 3 ай бұрын

Nice job. Sounds pretty good. Do you know how many cc’s that motor is?

@MeleeMotors 3 ай бұрын

Thanks! The displacement for the pistons is 8.84. The bore is 1.94 inches and the stroke is 1.50 inches. Thanks for watching.

@seanclement2264 2 ай бұрын

also, I thought my sea king wasn't pumping water, but I took it all the way apart and the only place that water could have come out was back through the bottom but if I'm wrong I would love to know.

@MeleeMotors 2 ай бұрын

I'll make a video in the near future about replacing the impeller and will show where the water exits.

@ALVintageOutboards 3 ай бұрын

If you want to replace the pump rotor its still available.

@MeleeMotors 3 ай бұрын

Yes, definitely on my list to purchase! I think I might have found some on ebay. Where did you find them?

@ALVintageOutboards 3 ай бұрын

They are here in Michigan but they will ship. I buy from them and they ship to me as I am 3 hours from them

@ALVintageOutboards 3 ай бұрын

kzfaq.infoHyUtoCLI8tw?si=WzfSOxx1LhT85VC7@@MeleeMotors heres my '47 I restored

@ALVintageOutboards 3 ай бұрын

I keep trying to put a link for the pump rotor here but it disappears

@MeleeMotors 3 ай бұрын

Yeah no worries I appreciate you trying! I just found a good source on ebay, so I'll just order it here. Thanks tho!

@nickmenard6477 3 ай бұрын

i have a 1968 johnson 6hp that someone gave me. put fuel to it and it fired right up. missing the twist throttle handle and spring. if someone can guide me where to get vintage parts id greatly appriciate that.

@MeleeMotors 3 ай бұрын

My best advice is to see if you can find a parts diagram for your model online and then try to search the parts by the oem part number. Try searching on ebay and Google and see what comes up. Ebay has been my best go to for vintage parts forsure.

@ALVintageOutboards 3 ай бұрын

The part you need is available from the 6hp that I have

@bluebtoot 13 күн бұрын

lol now we get to watch you play with yer 'johnson'

@MeleeMotors 12 күн бұрын

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