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[Destroyer]

Personally I'd love to see an outboard made in Germany. Way back in the 70's-80's I had a boat with a 350 GM engine on it married to a BMW outdrive. It just seems to me that a country so well known for precision engineering should be able to produce an outboard of the same high quality. Maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part?

[spareparts]

how about Sweden?

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by spareparts

how about Sweden?

Yup. I was thinking of Sweden (Saab)(Volvo) when I wrote that, but even they pale before the precision or German engineering. (IMHO)

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

Personally I'd love to see an outboard made in Germany. Way back in the 70's-80's I had a boat with a 350 GM engine on it married to a BMW outdrive. It just seems to me that a country so well known for precision engineering should be able to produce an outboard of the same high quality. Maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part?

I don't know if I would use the bmw drive as a good reference. Everything I've read on them says they were nightmares. I do think there is a German company designing a diesel outboard.

[spareparts]

yea, the BMW drives did not have a good reputation, The OXE diesel outboard is Swedish, the COX diesel outboard is English

[phatdaddy]

English diesel outboard? Please tell me they didn t use Lucas for the electrical components

[bradford]

And since when has an English piece of machinery been simple to work on or easy to find decently priced parts?

[spareparts]

Originally Posted by phatdaddy

English diesel outboard? Please tell me they didn t use Lucas for the electrical components

que the warm beer jokes

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by phatdaddy

English diesel outboard? Please tell me they didn t use Lucas for the electrical components

Originally Posted by Spareparts

Que the warm beer jokes

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


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...

[Destroyer]

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.