mainshiptom
Active member
2 Stroke or 4 ? American site
First, I will categorically state: If anybody suggests that you buy
a 4 Stroke OB to use on a small - say 11 ft or less - dink. Throw
them (the person, not the outboard) into the water. I'm buying a
2stroke 8 HP outboard (58 lbs) today and trying to sell my brand new,
never used, 8HP 4 stroke outboard (90 lbs).
Talk about a classic case of poor research...I sure did it with
this. I TOTALLY failed to examine what exactly I needed. Instead, I
went with the "4 strokes are cleaner, quiter, easier (no fuel/oil
mixing)" STUPID! Although they are those things, for my particular
application, it makes no sense given the added weight. If the dink
was mounted in such a way that the motor could stay on it, it
wouldn't matter but it can't.
I awoke from my brain-fade when the guy I was trying to order the
weaver leaver and Weaver Arc from (need the arc cuz the motor's too
heavy for just the leaver) said, "Mike, you're going to spend nearly
600 bucks to mount this motor. You can probably sell it and only
lose a couple of hundred. Why are you doing this?" Why indeed?
So, this afternoon I'm buying the 58 lb motor which I'll mount on the
transom with a $35 bracket. It's easy to shift the motor to the dink
with the dink hooked to the boat with the snap davits - I've tried
that with a friend's motor. I'll sell the 4 stroke.
Hey, losing only a few hundred bucks on boat stuff is a bargain!
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First, I will categorically state: If anybody suggests that you buy
a 4 Stroke OB to use on a small - say 11 ft or less - dink. Throw
them (the person, not the outboard) into the water. I'm buying a
2stroke 8 HP outboard (58 lbs) today and trying to sell my brand new,
never used, 8HP 4 stroke outboard (90 lbs).
Talk about a classic case of poor research...I sure did it with
this. I TOTALLY failed to examine what exactly I needed. Instead, I
went with the "4 strokes are cleaner, quiter, easier (no fuel/oil
mixing)" STUPID! Although they are those things, for my particular
application, it makes no sense given the added weight. If the dink
was mounted in such a way that the motor could stay on it, it
wouldn't matter but it can't.
I awoke from my brain-fade when the guy I was trying to order the
weaver leaver and Weaver Arc from (need the arc cuz the motor's too
heavy for just the leaver) said, "Mike, you're going to spend nearly
600 bucks to mount this motor. You can probably sell it and only
lose a couple of hundred. Why are you doing this?" Why indeed?
So, this afternoon I'm buying the 58 lb motor which I'll mount on the
transom with a $35 bracket. It's easy to shift the motor to the dink
with the dink hooked to the boat with the snap davits - I've tried
that with a friend's motor. I'll sell the 4 stroke.
Hey, losing only a few hundred bucks on boat stuff is a bargain!
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