40/44 tech and buy sell swap

[blueskyracer]

New part of the puzzel for my D mod this year thanks to Lee Tietze at Machine Components. He can do some amazing work with a chunk of Aluminum!

[Merc1]

That sure is a nice looking piece! Although I don't own anything made by Machine Components I wouldn't think twice about buying one of his parts. Everything looks top notch!

[A/B Speedliner]

44XS Port Cover

We tried ordering them from Mercury and our NLA Hot List did not turn up any in the dealer system so unless someone that is not a dealer has them they look to be hard to get.

David

[dil/viller]

port covers??

pops 67, ya ,i no that guy also[upside down port cover], in trying to cover up the mistake[or was it?] i think he blamed it on the troll that has been seen at times runnin round with sasquatch up here in are area. i am surprised i haven't seen more racers tryin the same trick.[or was it?] ! hi 2 rest of the family, the [mutant earthling] aka dil/viller.

[Merc1]

dil/viller, please take a picture of sasquatch so I can compare to pictures I have taken of the one here! Just so you know we have flipped all of our port covers in honor of the incident....... We are also playing with putting the props on backwards, Hi to all up there from the Junior W and parents!

[blueskyracer]

Any folks out there have a pair (upper and lower) of KA19 carbs with fixed jets that have not been cannibalized. I could sure use a good deal on a set

[Guest]

44XS type port covers

David and I have gone to our machine shop and droped off the prototype modified 44XS transfer port cover that we intend to make. The price should be available early next week. The first order will be for 25 units. If anyone would like one please let us known.If there is great need for them we would up the order quanity. We also started the discussion on manufacturing the 44XS gear housing. The machine shop has the capability to machine them out of 6061T651. He inspacted my last new 44XS housing and we need to get some additional data on the unit. I have an old D housing that we can section to get some of the info. The unit can be digitized but we were hopping of avoiding that cost. Anyone know if drawings are available?

Alan

[Guest]

Transfer port covers

I bought a new 44xs exhaust port cover in 2009 for $35.95, I think it was from Seaway Marine or somewhere like that. I'm sure they are still around. No need to reinvent the wheel!

Hi Bob,
SeaWay is still around. I use a number of online parts sellers that sell Merc parts online and there are none left. I still can search the dealer network to see if any dealer might have them and no parts showed up. We would love to find some but they are impossible to find.

Alan

[mtechmarine]

If my "added material" to the same specs as the 44XS internally port covers are illegal, will these "added material" complete port cover(s) be any different? Maybe we can get a definitive answer from inspectors at Jesup - -

If declared OK, I'll order the 1st one.

[Merc1]

Why the 19's?

Any folks out there have a pair (upper and lower) of KA19 carbs with fixed jets that have not been cannibalized. I could sure use a good deal on a set

I have some KA 9's still in stock/fishing form if interested.....

[A/B Speedliner]

Ka19

Mike
We have a set the you can have. I have no history on these but the top carb is missing the throttle butterfly and neither has a choke and it looks like the mounting holes have been spread out a little. You can have them for the postage.
David

[blueskyracer]

Mike
We have a set the you can have. I have no history on these but the top carb is missing the throttle butterfly and neither has a choke and it looks like the mounting holes have been spread out a little. You can have them for the postage.
David

Works for me since I am looking for pieces to make good ones. I have sent you a PM with vital info.

[blueskyracer]

I have some KA 9's still in stock/fishing form if interested.....

Sent PM to you

[crankbearing]

David and I have gone to our machine shop and droped off the prototype modified 44XS transfer port cover that we intend to make. The price should be available early next week. The first order will be for 25 units. If anyone would like one please let us known.If there is great need for them we would up the order quanity. We also started the discussion on manufacturing the 44XS gear housing. The machine shop has the capability to machine them out of 6061T651. He inspacted my last new 44XS housing and we need to get some additional data on the unit. I have an old D housing that we can section to get some of the info. The unit can be digitized but we were hopping of avoiding that cost. Anyone know if drawings are available?

Alan

Alan,

I own the drawings for both the 44 and 25xs gearcase and I have been down this road many times. Tad Olson was the closest I got and we were ready to do a casting the same as the new A housings that Ron had done and then machine. Your Billet cost is going to be REALLY high. The profiling of the case is expensive many many passes to make it right. the casting and then finish maching is the way to go. We need to talk about the drawings, I got them when I purchased all the remaining lower units.

Dave

[crankbearing]

Mike,

I have tons of CARBs - AJ - KA - KC's. KA21, 24 and 26 are my preferred carbs take a look at the spec sheets in the Merc manual and you will see why I prefer them over even the KC's. I can scan the spec sheets at some point and post the info. It covers all most of the ka carbs and a few Kc's I think.

Dave