Mariner Outboard - Never Again

[DownWest]

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]

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.

 

[thinwater]

Small Mercurys are made by Tahatsu and are the same motor. The decal is different, that's it. Just so you know. Also Evinrude and Nissan.

 

[vyv_cox]

Small Mercurys are made by Tahatsu and are the same motor. The decal is different, that's it. Just so you know. Also Evinrude and Nissan.

The engine itself may be the same but what about the ancillaries? They are usually the source of unreliability.

 

[thinwater]

The engine itself may be the same but what about the ancillaries? They are usually the source of unreliability.

As far is I know, they are boxed up in the same factory, as complete units. They are just rebadged since 1988.

 

[achwilan3]

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]

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...