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trainfan1 wrote:

My dad had a 75 HP McCoullough. 3 cylinder. Very high compression and
went like a bat outta hell when it ran (very high power to weitht ratio).
However, it blew head gaskets like crazy and even threw a rod once. He
ended up having to get rid of it due to reliability problems and went to
a 90 HP Johnson that didn't outrun it. It was more reliable though.

b.

I think the power was what drew my grandfather to the Scotts originally.
They were prone to break-downs, but they were still better than what
he called "One-Year-Wonders" - the Mercs, of the 40's & 50's. His 30/33
(he put the "upgrade kit" on when it became available) Scott was on a
1954 Feathercraft Vagabond, which he then put a 40hp McCulloch on.

The 40 never ran right, and he hauled that thing around in his station
wagon back & forth from here in the Adirondacks to Art Lembo's
dealership (Stutson Street area...?) in Rochester, NY until he died in
1969. My father got the motor out of storage in 1972 & used it on the
Feathercraft w/o trouble until the lower unit gave out in the fall of
1974. It probably only had 100-200 hrs on it. A 50hp Johnson replaced
it on the Feathercraft.

Rob