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I'd never join facebook total waste of time and there's no way I'd post my name or any personal info online. Make up a fake name or something and post no pics. Too many psychos these days. The few times i tried to buy something on FB I got no reply, a buddy listed a few things for me but...

You know what would freeze over before I sold a good four stroke for $250. The problem is it likely won't sell. I've watched several really nice boats and motors, all aluminum 14-16ft models and a dozen motors all go unsold all year.

Those bolts are put in before the bracket assembly is attached to the mid or exhaust housing. Before the pan or power head are set in place. I'm surprise you can get at even two of those bolts like that. The normal procedure is to remove the steering bracket assembly, which means pulling the...

Whether the OP missed it or not, any older motor is likely better than some of the junk we see today. I don't care what software is available or not available for something with fuel injections, I personally really don't want anything that needs a computer to run or fix it. When your miles...

South Jersey, about an hour south of Philly, about 10 hrs south of Lincoln, ME.

This is an old post but... Lower octane fuel should fire easier than high octane fuel due to its higher volatility level Start with the basics Check the compression make sure you have a healthy motor there. Then test the spark, it needs a bright blue spark on both plugs. Make sure the plugs...

I had a 14ft Grumman with a 48" wide flat bottom Mod V hull back in the 80's, the motor was a 20hp with 9.9hp decals, with two guys in it two batteries, a trolling motor on the bow, and stick steering up front on slight chop with the right prop I got 23mph on the fish finder, which used one of...

I pulled into a rest stop one day on my way to TN and there was a guy in the parking lot with several state police around looking at his boat. He stopped to grab a meal and came back and someone took a sawsall and cut a chunk out of the transom and stole his outboard. It was a fairly new bass...

Most spark plug manufacturers have set a minimum retail price to protect their dealers. I'd suspect any spark plug that was significantly cheaper than the others. Amazon is a real problem for a lot of things, nearly everything they sell there lately is suspect. Just look at some of the brand...

I used to buy their line all the time until around 2008/2009 or so when it changed. I got a few bad spools of 20lb line that I could break by hand way too easily. Their line before that was made by Stren. Now I'm told it comes from China so the source could be anything. Their flourocarbon is...

Other than my 21 year old truck and 22 year old car, everything else I've got still has points, or at least came new with them. I owned a 2005 Prius, which became mine by inheritance years ago. I sort of liked the car in a way because around town it burned almost no fuel. I could drive that...

Around here, before everything slowed down over the past few years, you would get people that would try to rush those ahead of them but when they got to the ramp they'd take an hour unloading toys, rods and and reels, tubes, etc. then they'd sit there and warm up the boat and screw around for...

I learned years ago to never go on face value. With a used motor, half the time the seller doesn't have a clue. "Sunk' to them may mean the thing got rained on it got dropped in the shallow for a second or two. You won't know till you try to fire it up. The fact that its not seized tells me it...

That wire leading into the cylinder head cover is a temp switch for the overheat buzzer in the control box. Its held in place by a rubber plug and seal beneath the water cover, for which you will also need a gasket for. You won't find an exact harness match, just the DI harness which is sort...

Its amazing how fast some guys will open their wallets to impress a pretty girl. A buddy sold his 18ft Starcraft the other day for $900, it ran great but needed a ton of work, the floors were rotten, the steering cable frozen, and the thing needed about 40 rivets replaced. It had a good...

What caused it to melt? Fire? Electrical short? Failed component? Assuming you have a control box and not just a bare throttle and dash ignition key, it sounds like what your after is a controller harness and an engine harness. Since OMC is no longer in business and those older motors have...

Update: Things changed quickly: I spoke to my buddies widow on Sun, she called all antsy about getting the boat out of the yard that day. She was offering to split what ever it brought in scrap or how ever I wanted to get rid of it with me and said I can keep the new motor if I got it out of...

I would expect to find large diameter pop rivets attaching the bench tops. Both my '89 Grumman and my '94 Duranautic were attached that way. Both had rotted wood fairly early on. I replaced the wood with Azec PVC sheeting using the same type of rivets I got online.

I realize that lately these and many other motors have been popping up for next to nothing or flat out free but a friend mine who was in his late 80's recently passed away and his wife is trying to raise some cash to pay bills. His boat is pretty much junk, he had taken a sawzall and cut down...

He threads them on the hook, I've tried it a few times and they don't move when casting but can get stolen easily but smaller fish. He's only cutting about a 1/2" piece or so. I've also used chicken livers wrapped in chicken skin and fat dipped in garlic oil for catfish, it works well in hot...