I have to agree that they are excellent motors and while thirsty, they seem to run forever if you keep the gas clean which is not an easy thing to do with todays crap gas...I compare them to the old merc 150 tower of power that sucked gas but are still running today if you keep clean fuel in them...I currently have two old johnny 225's but have had several johnnyrude 225's over the years and I think they are a great design and very simple motors to understand and work on..even for someone like me who can only do basic maintenance...I'm a firm believer in the KISS system (Keep It Simple Stupid)...I've also had a state of the art super charged fuel sipping ultra tech outboard that blew up the first year and twice the second year so I now try to search out the old 2 stroke low hour KISS motors that guys are trading out for the new high dollar and high tech wonders that no one can f###### work on..Frank