I have spent the few nice days in Michigan rebuilding the pressure tank for my 1956 7.5 hp engine. I have heard rumors of these tanks exploding or catching fire. Has anyone had first hand experience with this or is it just an attempt to sell me something? I grew up with these outboards and never...
=D> Thank you for this valuable link. Now I can get Ethanol free fuel for my old motors =D>
I am running a 56 Evinrude fleetwin, A 66 Evinrude Sportwin and a 51 Johnson TN-27. all have been tuned up and had the fuel systems redone but I still don't trust/like Ethanol in my outboards. [-X
I think the NAPA guy, a college age person was ignorant. I worked in retail hardware and we did everything we could to serve the customer. Good news is I found a small family run parts store that ordered my parts. Now if it will just warm up so I can work outside.
What ever happened to customer service? :evil: I went to buy a new fuel pump for my 1966 Evinrude since it still had the original and was leaking.My first stop was my local outboard dealer. "You can't get parts for that old thing anymore, We will give you fifty bucks trade in on a new...