That may be.. When I was working for the chain saw place I tore the carb apart on one, Cleaned and renewed it (Standard carb kit) filled it with 2-Cycle, sharpened the chain, properly installed it, Put oil in the chain oiler, took it out to test it, Got half way through the log and it threw a rod.
Ran perfectly.... Right up to when it threw the rod.
Mercury ran the engines for 300 hours, THEN they tore them down and inspected them.
Have you "no problems" torn your engines down and subjected the parts to metallurgical testing as Mercury did?
This is why I believe Mercury.
I also note they would not profit from falsifying the report. Or at least I can see no way for them to profit from a false report.
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business
Kenwood TS-2000 housed in a 2005 Damon Intruder 377
The hour meter on my genset stopped long before I got it...it shows something over 2500 hours. It's probably run close to 7-800 since I got it. It runs perfectly, I have no reason to tear it down. In the summer, it's running flat-out to power the A/C.
John and Elizabeth (Liz), with 3 nutty cats
My beloved St. Bernard, Marm, lost him 1/2/12
Current rig:
1992 International Genesis school bus conversion
Everyone, around here has at least one story of failed outboards, mowers, or especially two cycle powered tools from ethanol.
They are not corn farmers and aren't biased because of it.
I threw away a blower, and two trimmers, over the last four years.
The repair place showed me the damages on the trimmers, and blower.
I don't use ethanol. I still can ethanol free gas at a couple of stations.
The pickup doesn't like it either. It's 8 years old and eng mgt doesn't like to adjust to the junk.Ethanol wasn't mandated then.
I have an old (c.1976) Husqvarna chainsaw that had worked perfectly up until E10 was all I could get. All the fuel lines & carb gaskets just melted. Parts are almost impossible to find so essentially that gas has ruined a perfectly good tool that requires me to buy a new one at approx $500.
That post would be a lot more useful if they defined "older". For some of them (hoses, fuel filter bowl) they do, or provide helpful information about how to identify them. For most they just say "older" without any indication as to whether it's 10 years, 20 years, or 40 years that they're considering "old".
Re-read the article and the links again. They refer several times to dates or descriptions of "problem materials" not necessarily directly related to dates.
That post would be a lot more useful if they defined "older". For some of them (hoses, fuel filter bowl) they do, or provide helpful information about how to identify them. For most they just say "older" without any indication as to whether it's 10 years, 20 years, or 40 years that they're considering "old".
"The majority of complaints concern older outboard motors, those made before about 1990. BoatUS’ Seaworthy magazine asked Mercury Marine’s "
So, if I have one that was made IN 1990, is that "about" 1990, or not? And which problem(s) is it likely to have?
Since it's put out by Mercury Marine, one would think they would know how they made their engines in particular years, and precisely when they stopped using the problem materials for each of the problems listed.
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