antique outboard

[jdaugherty]

any one know anything about antique outboards? I have two old elgins and i have no idea how to get them running.

[Nick_Barr]

sell em, I have an antique motor 1962, been in and out of the shop for a year now. I am planning on selling mine as a project.

[GamblerFL]

Go to aomc.net. There is a lot of info on them. I have several that I run from time to time. They run pretty good and arent hard to fix.

[jdaugherty]

thanks, i tried aomc.net and its some optical hong kong web site.

[Muddpuppy]

I have a old 12hp. Elgin.  I think it started out a friend on mine,  father's, I don't know how I ended up with it.  We would put it on an 8 or 12' flatbottom and hit creek bottoms and sloughs hunting, frog gigging and trotlineing.  If it wouldn't jump over, squeeze under a logs or brush we carried a 12" homelite chainsaw and went through it.  That was one tough/heavy motor.  I haven't tried to crank it since we destroyed the prop and that has been many years ago.  It ran good until then.  I think it was originaly built for Sears by Johnson or Evenrude.  It seems I inquired about getting parts for it at some local out-of-the-way motor shops and they seemed to think they could if it wasn't too major.  But even that has been several years ago.  I believe the motor was fairly easy to work on.  As far as like a prop goes that would have to be rebuilt (I wish I knew who ended up with it)  So I am not much help.  I am interested in what you find out about repairing one.