Mariner Outboard - Never Again

DownWest

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Wow!!!!
My heart would be in my mouth rebuilding that
All quite straight forward with the book. I did mine, but had to make up a decent lever for the socket.. I get requests to sort friends cars. Quite happy to a point, but refuse cam belts, as the downside, for what ever reason, is huge.
After I did mine, got an ask to do a Clio, same donk, refused, politely, the garage charged him €1500 with a few other bits, like filters and oil.
My change was € 24 for the belt... Asessed the water pump was OK and the idler.
 

fredrussell

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If you say so. But our Mercury/Mariner/Tohatso 2 strokes from last century are light weight, simple and very reliable if fed recent E5 petrol and carb kept clean. If feel like over doing the love change the spark plug every 5 years or so, Cheap and simple.
On the first page of this forum there are currently four threads about crappy running small outboards. It’s not the fault of the manufacturers I reckon, it’s just that small petrol outboards have tiny jets that block oh so easily.
 

achwilan3

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I bought my Tohatsu 3.5 HP in 2004 in Alderney (tax free). Other than the occasional reluctance to start that is the curse of 2-strokes it has performed faultlessly. Definitely a worthwhile purchase. It replaced a relatively new Mariner that gave endless trouble
I bought my Tohatsu 3.5 HP in 2004 in Alderney (tax free). Other than the occasional reluctance to start that is the curse of 2-strokes it has performed faultlessly. Definitely a worthwhile purchase. It replaced a relatively new Mariner that gave endless trouble
I am still using a faithful indestructible 1996 Tohatsu 2 strokes 3.5 hp…. 😁
 

alahol2

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My ancient Mariner 2M keeps running. Cleaned the waterways once, relined the water pump, new plug every few years. Always run the carb dry when finishing with the engine for a week or more. Fuel tank usually stays full over winter and it starts happily in the spring.

I hope that hasn't jinxed it...
 
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