What are my chances?

[racerone]

Re: What are my chances?

Some from the 60's and 70's may be " chrysler " built.

 

[oldboat1]

Re: What are my chances?

good hist., high trim, and great pic. Thanks. It sounds like the Gale line was dumbed down for the price niche, so might not be quite as good as I thought. The larger Sea King I had was either a '56 or '57, and I had some Buccanner parts for that one. Motor was good, but I wish now that I at least had the boat I sold with the motor.

Some of the Sea Kings were indeed Chrysler built, as racerone says. I have a couple in parts up in the garage, and have sometimes used Sea King motors as parts motors for Chryslers. All 60s-70s stuff.

 

[steelespike]

Re: What are my chances?

50s and 60s to 63 are Gale/OMC products And for all intents and purposes the same motors.
Keeping it very simple; The gale 3 is a single where the OMC is a twin,but later ones do share some ignition parts. The 5 shares some parts with the OMC 5.5 but has its own power head Some early 12s,15s 22 and 25 used a fuel pump when OMC was still using a pressure tank.Some earlier gales used a Tillotson carb while newer ones used the OMC carb.
There are so many Gale built motors out there that there still is a ample supply of Gale specific parts.
I just sent a box full of fuel system parts I had been hoarding to a guy the is refurbishing a Gale 12D10 that uses a Tillotson carb.
12D10 is the first year full gear shift 12 there is also a 12S10 that is direct drive.

 

[oldboat1]

Re: What are my chances?

another good history (steelespike's post). The Sea King (OMC/Gale) 35 I had was a '58, and had a fuel pump -- part of a "cruiser" option for the '57/'58 rudes. (I know it was a 35, so it must have been a '57 or '58.) I was thinking earlier it might have been a '56, but couldn't have been because OMCs didn't come out with 35s until '57, right? Grey. Sea King decal, still alum. cowling.

 

[HighTrim]

Re: What are my chances?

Yeah I believe Montgomery Ward used West Bend in '64 and '65 for its supply.

If it was a 35hp it was at least a '58 oldboat. The '56 and '57s were 25hp motors.

 

[HighTrim]

Re: What are my chances?

If you click on the picture of the 5hp in my post it is actually a video of it running after like 40 years. Put some new coils in her, cleaned the carb and she took off running. Looks like it fell from a 12 story building but still idles pretty good.