que the warm beer jokes :beer:

The reason for the warm beer and the electrical problems is they used Smiths for their gauges :hide:


I have a 1973 BSA 441 Victor motorcycle that has Lucas, Smiths, and Amal parts on it. So aside from the fact that the shift and the brake are on the opposite sides of all other bikes, I'm plagued with
Lucas, the God of Darkness
Smiths, the God of Non-functioning
and
Amal, the only carburetor that I know of that you actually need to have raw gas pour out of the throat in order to start the engine.
Gotta love the British...

Truthfully, in the 2-3 years I had that boat (25' John Allmand) I never had any problems with the BMW outdrive. The block cracked on me after a very cold winter and I had not drained it properly, (my fault) and that spelled the end for me and that boat, but the outdrive preformed flawlessly during that time.

Lucas makes refrigerators also

Yes, and Smiths makes the gauges that are used to fix the Lucas compressors... hence the warm beer. LOL

That's funny right there, lol!

Neander shark is the German company building diesel outboards. They're building smaller 2 cylinder diesel outboards, and according to Yanmar, they're building there new diesel outboard as well. It's a quite interesting design with dual crankshafts, four rods, and 2 pistons.

http://www.yanmarmarine.com/dtorque/

Interesting. But at 385 lbs for a 50 hp that's significant for a lot of applications.:head:

It's compareable to a 75hp gas outboard, so that 385 lbs makes it lighter than my 75hp Honda I had on my carolina skiff. There was talk of pushing them up to 70hp to compete with 90hp gas outboards.