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We are enjoying a beautiful slow spring warm up. Rain almost every day. Beautiful blue skies and sunshine till about 1 or 2 in the afternoon then a drizzle turning into a down pour. Got about 1¾inches on Thursday, keeping everything beautiful and green.

Found a picture.

Our first boat was a 14' wooden SeaKing with the 35 Elgin. Dad got it for a song since it was singed pretty bad in a barn fire. After restoring it we got a couple good years before the lower unit took a dump. Dad found a 28 HP at Sears in the fall of 1963 on sale. Was $399 marked down to 199. This Elgin as made by Scott McCullough. Maybe 10 years later the neighbor had a Glastron 156 Tri hull with a Chrysler 55 for sale. Dad bought it and on the first day out the engine ran lean and scuffed a cylinder. Found out the dealership that worked on it didn't put the main bearing retainer pin in and the bearing outer rotated in the crankcase allowing play and air to leak around the seal. Dad still had the old 35 West Bend with the bad lower unit so we took the 35 powerhead and put it on the 55. We figured out that the problem with the Chrysler lower units was the seal behind the prop would get chewed up if the got the ski rope wrapped around the prop. Dad made a spacer at work to prevent that. I ended up finding another 55 with a bad lower unit for $125 and put that back on the boat

My Dad's first boat had a 35HP Elgin (Sears) made by West Bend (Sold to Chrysler). The fiberglass hood had 56 Chevy fins. It did have a novel key lockout that restricted the throttle allowing the motor to be used on lake requiring lower HP limits. The lower unit was the same for 35~55. Good motor but loud and a gas hog.

Send some of that rain my way, please.

That one is close being 2,283 light years away. The next picture is of M65 and 66 with are about 35,000,000 light years away!

It is..... I've talked about before who was a highered hand had a 69 camper specail..250 4x4 four speed devorsed transfer.. Looked exactly like that one ... But i can see from the pick that one has an updated frame.... If you look at these two pics, it's clearly on a defrent frame... Most likely. Box (closed in, n not the c-channel type.

My first outboard was given to me by my grandfather , it was a 35 Chrysler it was on the back of a 16 ft fiberglass Glasspro ---- never did have a Elgin , but I did have a ESKA, which I think was the same as a Wizard from Western Auto or the Gamefisher / Ted Williams from Sears

True classic..... If they would come down on price this one would be in my drive very very soon... But with a stick not auto.... One thing i noticed..... It's not a true ford 250.... 6 bolt padern at the hubs, a true 250 3/4 ton ford in those days had a full floating axle.... Although, those might be covers... What little is shown of the cab.... Looks very close to the original......devorsed transfer case... Just as the original, be super sweet if they do the square body chevy pickups, but i think it's ford only...... Can even seethe engine..... Lol ..... Sure beats those new toy trucks... With play time tinker toy diesels.

Always lowered the hammer n laid those ears back driving that pete train grain truck when that great song came on!

Making headway. Fingers crossed I get er fired up today. Welded a bracket, new oil cooler & fan mounted. Fan is from a Kodiak 350. WOW does it move air!!! Just have to install jets, run lines to the cooler, (fill it first of course) top up the camshaft cavity with oil (has moly all over journals & cam now) & triple check everything…

Lol looks like my fingers are typing keys I don't want them too.

I normally clean my cases out thoroughly with cans of starter fluid. No longer cheap but does a good job. Is that baked on oil or ???. Looks different than anything I’ve found in an engine. That drum looks ok to me. I’d spin it and and forth a few times with everything in the center back in place, but before complete reassembly, were it mine.

I check on my garden early every morning well yesterday morning the raccoons decided raid my corn. They took out 5 stalks so lost 10 ears of corn glad it wasn't more. So late yesterday evening I mixed up a batch of tabasco, cayenne pepper to a gallon of water and sprayed it throughout my corn. This morning looks good all corn still standing sure hope this works, because once those coons find a food source they like to visit often. I will spray every 3 days till harvest if it works.