1991 Johnson 175

[txswinner]

After 8 year absence have returned to boating. Just bought a like new 1991 Ranger with 175 Johnson. Now local boat dealer has told me it is junk it will break just a question of when. It runs well and compression checked out. Have I screwed up or what is the issue here.

 

[JB]

Re: 1991 Johnson 175

If you screwed up at all, Tex, it was by paying attention to the local boat dealer.<br /><br />I wouldn't recommend doing business with him.<br /><br />If anything that will eventually break is junk, then that's what all of us have.<br /><br />You don't stay in bed because you know that you will die. . ."it's just a question of when". . .do you?<br /><br />Take care of her and enjoy. <br /><br />May the dealer be three days in hades before Jesus knows he is dead.

 

[05GlastronSX]

Re: 1991 Johnson 175

i agree with JB. dont do business with that dealer because that info is sure as hell inaccurate. Everything breaks at some point and time, its just a matter of when. If that boat has been well maintained and taken care of, it should give you many more years of fun.

 

[Mercathode]

Re: 1991 Johnson 175

I worked for a dealer and we tore apart a '79 150 Evinrude that had locked up. We tore her apart and found it had spun a main bearing scoring the crank. With a little scotch brite, he clean the crank up and put it back together. I dreaded the day that the motor would go out to a new customer. The fall came and I was back in college before it was sold WHEW