I had some wrench time this week in between building kitchen cabinets... I was planning to swap the rear to cast iron anyway, but I found the rear had three of the four mounting bolts through the axle tubes snapped off and one of the front mounts was snapped off. There were only TWO bolts holding that rear in!
I pulled the whole works and swapped over the pump with new cork to the cast iron rear I had ready to go and bolted it all back in with the newly rebuilt driveshaft. The only thing I don't like about that is this is an internal brake rear instead of disk brakes. I think I'll manage though, that's not a big deal.
I didn't take pictures but the deck hanger instead of having pins through the arms to hold the hanger to the lift, a PO had used pieces of metal fish stringer on both sides.
The engine has created a mystery for me now. I bolted everything back in and installed the good 1811 wiring harness (thanks Lew!), but now I have no spark when it turns over. I'm pretty certain I had spark before. I disconnected the wiring harness from the engine to make sure something wasn't grounding the coil from there, and there's no spark at all. My theory is the PO did this swap and did not account for the mag coil vs battery ignition and burned the coil up. I'm going to have to pull out the fluke and start testing. (Where is that thing anyway?
). And probably end up having to pull the engine again to take the cover off to get to the coil. The chain hoist makes that job so easy.
Once the spark issue is resolved I think it'll run. It's definitely getting gas in the carb and we have compression on both sides.