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5 hp sea king with Clinton motor

Bill mat

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Hi just bought a sea king to use as a back up and possibly a kicker. It appears to be a 1971 model. I am going to clean the carb and then start it. Without doing anything it fired up d
 
Sorry hit the wrong button. Anyways I believe it will run but have a few questions. First does it have reverse. I don’t believe so and there is no place that I can see any linkage for changing gears. Second I am going to hook it up to the same gas tank as my 35 hp mercury which runs on 50 to 1. I am going to try going to about a 35 to 1. Hopefully both will run ok on that mixture? Thanks
 
My sea king 5.0 says 3 oz of 2 cycle to 1 gal of gas. Which is equal to like 40:1 mix. I have an clinton engine model xtv 50555a type k505 6106a.
It says mix 3oz of sae 30 oil to 1 gallon of gas
 
There is a link to Eska service manual here, they built Sea King brand. See the list of other names they were sold under, at the bottom of page 1
 
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