I picked up a 1957 Wards Sea King GG9016C which my research has told me is a 1957 Gale 12S13 Standard (thanks F_R). From what I read these motors are considerd to be pretty reliable and when I went to buy the motor the owner said he used it last fall and when we hauled it out of his shed and hooked up the gas it started on the second pull. When I got it home I was excited to find cracked original coils figuring it had very few hours on it and no one had messed with it too much. As I started disassembly I noticed quite a bit of oil all over the motor but I figured it was just a bad upper seal. When I removed the magneto plate I was disappointed to find the crank case lip cracked at the oil slinger on both halves of the crankcase split. I talked to the person I bought it from and he said he had another parts motor with a leaking lower unit and running power head he would sell me cheap. So I pulled the powerhead and noticed that these motors have a split on the exhaust leg where the powerhead mounts. Before I invest more money into getting this motor up and running I am curious if any knows if this split mounting frequently causes the crank case halves to crack on this motor?
Thanks,
Jeff
Thanks,
Jeff