craveman85
Petty Officer 2nd Class
- Joined
- Jun 15, 2010
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- 107
I've been a long time admirer and hope to someday be an avid collector of homelite and bearcat 55s. Next week I'm actually picking up a pair of running homelite 55s ones a 63 and the other is a 64. I'm getting both motors, controls, 4 extra props, a shop parts catalog, a repair manual, and the original owners manuals for 800$ I already have a couple of parts motors and some miscellaneous spare parts I've accumulated over the past couple of years. I've read that the homelite motors had a design flaw. Something to do with no water in the exhaust manifold. I can't find where I read it so does anyone know about this and potentially a fix? I've also heard that there is a petronix ignition upgrade I couldn't locate. I see economy 4 cycle says they put electronic fuel pumps on their motors is it just a generic one with a regulator? Last time I checked economy 4 cycles website was down. Something about their license expiring. Anyone on here know of any performance upgrades? I think I'll actually have enough parts to build 4 complete motors after I get these 2. And someone else has one minus a lower unit I'm waiting to hear back from. I think my plan is to put one of the running ones on my 61 alumacraft queen merrie, keep the other one running as a spare, hot rod one of them and maybe get another running and set up to potentially put twins on my alumacraft.