reelfishin
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I picked up a small boat last week with a super clean looking '69 Evinrude 55973A motor on it. It had been stored for over 35 years unused in a barn.
The boat is fine but the motor has major wiring issues. There isn't a single surviving wire with any insulation. They don't look burned, just bare and covered with green corrosion.
The motor has 139 PSI on all three cylinders and looks like a new motor cosmetically. Might anyone have a good used harness or know where I can find one? I don't want to dump a ton of cash in this until I hear it run although I'm pretty confident it will. Its an electric shift motor, the wires going down to the lower unit are fine, but from the plug upward are bare. Every other last wire is totally bare, no sign of insulation. If they were rodent chewed, the little critters didn't miss a spec of insulation. If the burned, there's no sign of burned insulation or melted wire. It just looks like the insulation turned to dust and fell away over the years.
It was stored untouched for all these years, I probably was the first to pull the cover since it was parked there in 1972. It was indoors, but not heated and they had a tarp covering the motor under the cover which was latched over top of a plastic bag which covered the motor. The rest of the boat and motor were covered in a heavy canvas tarp. The boat had it's mooring cover installed and two canvas tarps on top of that.
The rest of the boat's wiring is mint, the controls are good as is the dash. I see no sign of any other wiring damage, just the motor's wiring.
I will need a stator, rectifier, main harness and all other on motor wires.
I may be able to solder new wires to the stator, and but the Rectifier wires are gone all the way to the housing and nearly corroded off.
What got me the most was that this was a freshwater boat from west central PA, its not likely it saw much if any saltwater.
The boat is fine but the motor has major wiring issues. There isn't a single surviving wire with any insulation. They don't look burned, just bare and covered with green corrosion.
The motor has 139 PSI on all three cylinders and looks like a new motor cosmetically. Might anyone have a good used harness or know where I can find one? I don't want to dump a ton of cash in this until I hear it run although I'm pretty confident it will. Its an electric shift motor, the wires going down to the lower unit are fine, but from the plug upward are bare. Every other last wire is totally bare, no sign of insulation. If they were rodent chewed, the little critters didn't miss a spec of insulation. If the burned, there's no sign of burned insulation or melted wire. It just looks like the insulation turned to dust and fell away over the years.
It was stored untouched for all these years, I probably was the first to pull the cover since it was parked there in 1972. It was indoors, but not heated and they had a tarp covering the motor under the cover which was latched over top of a plastic bag which covered the motor. The rest of the boat and motor were covered in a heavy canvas tarp. The boat had it's mooring cover installed and two canvas tarps on top of that.
The rest of the boat's wiring is mint, the controls are good as is the dash. I see no sign of any other wiring damage, just the motor's wiring.
I will need a stator, rectifier, main harness and all other on motor wires.
I may be able to solder new wires to the stator, and but the Rectifier wires are gone all the way to the housing and nearly corroded off.
What got me the most was that this was a freshwater boat from west central PA, its not likely it saw much if any saltwater.