blew my motor up :(

Seacrets: I for one am not a Merc basher and I used to have that kind of luck with the 80's and up to mid 90's Mercs and I think the Black Max was pretty much bullet proof and in the same league as the old "90hp tower of power". Unfortunately the hundreds of early Opti max power head failures and Mercs hostile and arrogant attitude towards the owners ran off a lot of business that willl never come back including the commercial guys. If they had admitted the problem and tried to help guys out with legitimate warranty claims they would of been ahead of the game as I think they now have a good product but they are not selling . Sucking mud is a very serious problem for any outboard and I did it big time this morning when I missed the channel in the dark going out early but I was lucky as I managed to shut it off quick. If it had blown it would not of been the fault of the old johnson it would of been mine. Frank