You can polish your hammer faces to prevent the hammer from transferring whatever dings or scratches on its face to metal parts you hit with it. Don’t know how useful it would be for this application but i bet there are some parts that could do with a little less marring. Free tech tip of the day
60 PSI is on the low side. Ive repaired and owned many of these. Mine have all been at 90psi and they run very well on 90psi. 60psi it will run but not have near the power it should have and can be hard starting.
100% agree! But sometimes you work with what you have, it will at least run on 60. Should tick up a bit after running awhile too, had been sitting for quite a while
I have a 1959 Johnson 3.5 with the weedless lower unit self contained fuel tank 50-1gass oil mix on it it told me to mix 1 gt of 30 grade motor oil to a 6 gallon tank it had sat for years the neadal valve was stuck and fuel bowel was a sludge factory checked compression new J4 plugs pushes my 10ft John boat fine carry a 1 gallon Jerry can with me for extended range never used it as to fishing all day and half of the built in tank
Those little 3 or 3.5hp are gems! And I think they’re massively under rated on the hp. I fixed a 59 3hp and I could go 5mph on a 16 foot flat bottom! Great motors
Thanks for the video man. I love learning more about outboards. Plus you area regular guy and very relatable. I am now a new subscriber.
Appreciate the love! I love tinkering on all these outboards! I’ll have more coming soon
I'd like to see what the compression is now that you have it running.
I can re test it and let you know, always ticks up a bit after running them
You can polish your hammer faces to prevent the hammer from transferring whatever dings or scratches on its face to metal parts you hit with it. Don’t know how useful it would be for this application but i bet there are some parts that could do with a little less marring. Free tech tip of the day
you wouldn't happen to have the old manual for that by chance?
I don’t have the specific manual for it. But I may have the general clymer manual for that set of years. What info do you need?
That is the gearshift on the side the throttle is the front handle
Yessiree
60 PSI is on the low side. Ive repaired and owned many of these. Mine have all been at 90psi and they run very well on 90psi. 60psi it will run but not have near the power it should have and can be hard starting.
100% agree! But sometimes you work with what you have, it will at least run on 60. Should tick up a bit after running awhile too, had been sitting for quite a while
I have a 1959 Johnson 3.5 with the weedless lower unit self contained fuel tank 50-1gass oil mix on it it told me to mix 1 gt of 30 grade motor oil to a 6 gallon tank it had sat for years the neadal valve was stuck and fuel bowel was a sludge factory checked compression new J4 plugs pushes my 10ft John boat fine carry a 1 gallon Jerry can with me for extended range never used it as to fishing all day and half of the built in tank
Those little 3 or 3.5hp are gems! And I think they’re massively under rated on the hp. I fixed a 59 3hp and I could go 5mph on a 16 foot flat bottom! Great motors
You definitely have carburetor problems I'm betting the hight speed ideal and the jet are plugged up what I use is welding tip cleaners
Great tip! It ends up the packing needed replaced in the carb! I’ll cover more on the next episode!
Is that a 5hp
7.5hp