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 TH-cam 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.
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 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 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!
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. :)
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.
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.
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.
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 TH-cam 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.
Hell yeah, thats awesome! Thanks for sharing, sounds like great memories. And thanks for that tip, I'll definitely use that one👍
Good job. Maybe you’ll catch the vintage outboard bug!
@pryan05p71 yeap, I think I have!
I had one just like it on a flat bottom 14 foot boat and used it for 40 years 😊 bring back great memories
Awesome, thanks for watching!
Cool old school boat motor!
Nice little engine, love it
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.
Wow. Thanks for the info! Super cool. I'll have to look more into now!
@@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.
@centauri61032 that's awesome! Simpler times back then. Thanks for the info, and thanks for watching!
@@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!
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 😊
Great Score Bro ,Love ol Boat Motors ,No Frozen Bolts or Nothing Classic Well done
Thanks bro!
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. :)
Right! I was pleasantly surprised for sure. Thanks for watching :)
Ward's branded their outboards as Sea-King. My aunt had one similar to this one. I think they were manufactured by Scott-Atwater.
This one is an OMC/Gale made Sea King
It's alive!
Amazing and a pleasure to watch....
Thanks for watching!
i have one of these and it runs so incredibly well i was really surprised
When things were built tough.
Right!
Nice job. Sounds pretty good. Do you know how many cc’s that motor is?
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.
lol now we get to watch you play with yer 'johnson'
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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.
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.
The part you need is available from the 6hp that I have
Monkey Wards, giant store on university street in St.Paul,Minnesota. From St.Paul,Minnesota.
thats an old 'johnson' outboard from back when they were making outboards for montgomery wards
If you want to replace the pump rotor its still available.
Yes, definitely on my list to purchase! I think I might have found some on ebay. Where did you find them?
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
th-cam.com/users/shortsHyUtoCLI8tw?si=WzfSOxx1LhT85VC7@@MeleeMotors heres my '47 I restored
I keep trying to put a link for the pump rotor here but it disappears
Yeah no worries I appreciate you trying! I just found a good source on ebay, so I'll just order it here. Thanks tho!
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.
I'll make a video in the near future about replacing the impeller and will show where the water exits.
Get you some blue shower to spray and clean your contacts (all contacts)
Using a carpenter’s hammer for mechanical work indicates a lack of engineering expertise and knowledge…..
Well, it's a good thing I'm not an engineer! Lol, I'm a mechanic, and sometimes you just have to work with what you've got.
Engineers typically have no real experience.