Originally Posted by coriolan

There is one of those Fuji outboard on ebay right now, the price is quite high but still many bidders!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FUJI-OUTBOAR...30913665822%26
Somehow seems more recent and maybe larger than .15 displacement!

I am nowhere near an expert on the Fuji's, but as far as I can see, it is just an FW 17 RC (as far as I know a watercooled .15 with layshaft and reduction) but:

--It is the first one of that type ever that I have seen to be all black.
--The condition of the paint looks better than any other NIB I saw on e-bay but I have seen this type only with off-white tail and brown casing.
--The same seller listed a seahorse type, completely disassembled and the parts sandblasted, just about 1 or 2 weeks prior....

In my humble opinion that combination of facts indicates this motor is not original but completely re-done, most likely very recently.

There have been sold a few incomplete "scrappers" of this type recently, so it is most likely built out of combined parts of different motors. A "Frankenstein" Engine...

I am not a collector. I'd like to use the motors I buy. But an engine that possibly has been sandblasted, possibly has been assembled from different, most likely heavily used ones, represents a too big risk to me. One particle of grit somewhere, one worn out part, and the engine is wasted.
And the price might be fair for what is on offer, but for me way too much.

(But it is really a beauty that's for sale there....)

Brgds, Bert

I just yesterday received my other Fuji....

Although I have seen pics and drawings, now that I have it IRL, it is an impressive little motor with a lot of nice design details.

It was sold as "most probably never run" and at first glance it looked like that.
Further inspection however showed a discoloration of the piston skirt exactly at the projection of the exhaust port in TDC. This is a sure sign of an engine that has been run.
There was also some traces visible of cooling water splashing down in the exhaust chamber in the lower unit.
When I connected the glowplug, I very clearly smelled WD40, which is also not normal in a glow engine.

But, I cannot blame the seller, because it took me a fair amount of time an I needed to disassemble the engine to see these traces.

And even if it would have really never been run.... sure it has lost it's "virginity" this afternoon....

Don't know yet if I am going to run it for real. I know it will loose a significant amount of value, but on the other hand, it was never designed to sit on a dusty shelf.....

Brgds, Bert

Very nice engine,the gear box arrangement is very well designed and build. Fuji engines of the period had very nice casting and this engine is clearly engineered as a power unit for that outboard instead of just being an adapted airplane engine. I specially like the integration of the exhaust like in a full scale outboard, I have a marine Fuji .099 from the late 70's but by then the workmanship wasn't as impressive as your sample and this engine isn't a good runner,believe it or not the fit between the sleeve and the crankcase is so sloppy that the engine just run on a prime!

Brutus the cherry popper!
At least the previous owner did put some WD in it so that's not totally a bad thing.

Originally Posted by Ron Olson

Brutus the cherry popper!
At least the previous owner did put some WD in it so that's not totally a bad thing.

Nah... don't think I was the first....

But still.... it was satisfying to make her scream ....

We'll see, because whatever is happening, I will not run it in a bucket or drum of water. That just doesn't work.....
Finding another hull suitable for an outboard, will be a matter of (much) time....

Brgds, Bert