are these any good??

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there are deffinaty two camps of thought on those engines, people whoe have them and love them, and people who have Yamahas and hate them. They have had their issues, but mercury has taken care of most of their problems. But like Ferm said, those things are heavy, their listed weight is with no prop, oil, gear lube, power steering(standard on this engine). mercury cheated on thier list weights. Bass and Wallie did a write up on comparing actual weights of big fourstroke outboards a while back, I can't remember how much it was, but the Merc was heavier than all the others