DEAL, pair 200 JOHNSONS
 

Even if the one engine is junk, this is still a good price on a pair of 200's.

http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/boa/3413624441.html

Great deal, they don't look too salty either.

I would love to buy these, they are cheap!! I am selling the Yamaha HDPI and will have no power next spring:sad: But hard times are here! The only thing is I swore I would never buy another with out being able to ck it out first! Been screwed that way a few times.
O well I will be trying to Ho as many rides as I can next season:deer:

If Skools sees those they'll be in NC quicker than you can say compression test...but he's just got all marriaged up so he might not be thinkin' motors right now...on the other hand, he's still Skools Out!!...

THose motors are how old ?? 89's ? Thirty years old or more ?

Why do people always say "might have a stuck ring" like it means something good?

Anyways, my buddy picked up a pair of the zacked same motors this spring and with almost the same problem.

On the back of his 25' Proline with 9'6" beam they push it to almost 50 MPH.

Good motor will plane it off to 25 MPH or so all by itself.

Bad motor won't get it ou of the hole at all.

Oh, he's getting less than 1 MPG at cruise!

1989 to 2012 is 23 years, not quite 30(no more than 25 as that engine didn't come out until the first of 88). Yes they are old(88-91 vintage to be exact), but $1500 for a pair of them is pretty good. Come summer time the good one will fetch $3K simply because it is one of the most reliable outboards EVER built. They are gas hogs, but they can sure take a beating and go for thousands of hours. Sitting actaully does more damge to most outboards than useage. And they are known for sticking rings that take out a cylinder as I have Bradfords old engine here and that is exactly what happened to it.

Seems like my buudy has the same problem. Is there a common cause for this? Is it carbon or something else?

Will doing a Ring Free or Seafoam decarb help? If not can you fix just the one bad hole?

Being a large 2 stroke gas hog, they do carbon the rings up pretty bad. When they get carboned up they normally gouge teh cylinder walls and scratch which is where the compression loss comes in. Running the snot out of them, or decarboning them does the trick to prevent it from happening. Once they stick a ring, unfortunately you have to tear em down and have that hole bored and a new piston put in.

She ran like a scalded dog until I lost RPMs. I came off plane and she sounded like a spray paint can.

Spare told me they run the best right before they blow.

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