4 stroke haters are generally those that have no or very little experience with them. There's a pretty good reason they have pretty much taken over the outboard market. I doubt THAT many people are wrong....
I have enough experience with them to know they are Gutless for pulling Skiers, unless they are triple or quadruple the HP of a 2 Stroke. Sure you can prop it so it has a bit more Low End Torque, but then you are overrevving to get to a Skiing Speed.
Riigghhttt. Another government conspiracy against the public.....
That's sooooo true. But after many years running 2-strokes, and then thankfully switch to I/Os, I'm glad I had the ability to switch to 4-stroke outboards.
Well....how many 2 stroke outboards are on the market?? Gov't standards have eliminated 2 strokes...no conspiracy, just fact !! Wait a few more years until we have to go electric !!!
I have a gasoline John Deere lawn tractor. All my other equipment (weed-wacker, leaf blower, chain saw, garden tiller) have been switched to electric. They are all the same manufacturer so I have a whole pile of batteries. I always get the job done. They actually work better! 1 hour full charge.
I’ll take an evinrude or Johnson two stroke over a merc any day of the week. I’ve worked on all of those and the mercy’s are definitely more troublesome. I have to replace the merc on my pontoon, it was on there when I bought it. Fourth year in and I’m tired of having to monkey with it all summer.
The early(1974 - mid 80s)OMC 9.9s were about 12hp compared to the 11hp of Mercs 9.8. Good little engines, much stronger Gear Train than Mercs
When it came the V4 Crossflows and the Inline 6s, I give Mercury the nod. They were smoother, and gave better fuel Economy than the OMCs. My inline 115 had better Acceleration, higher top speed, and did so on less fuel, than the 140 OMC crossflow did on the same boat. That otta start a war
I tried the electric yard tools but not impressed, if I had a small city lot they might be ok but I can't make it around my property without using multiple batteries. The electric tools do not have the power of the gas tools either. However, to each his own, my only real issue with electric tools is you can't find replacement batteries when they wear out, you have to replace the whole tool...
Thanks for the battery repair offer, but I have been involved in R/C toys for many years, well versed on batteries. Nothing wrong with progress but at what cost? New technology is being forced upon us at a finnancial rate that the majority can't afford, that is my real concern. With much of this technology comming from foreign countries, I don't want to be the guinea pig..
Noteworthy maybe, is the difference in our outlooks here. My thought is it's being offered, not forced (unless you are a Ca resident). If you don't want it, if it's not able to get the job done to your satisfaction, don't buy it! There's no quinea pig here. This stuff has all been out/available long enough where things are pretty predictable.
That is a major issue that has not been addressed, one of my reasons for saying " forced" upon us.. Regular dry chemmical extinguishers won't work, neither does foam generators extingush these fires!! Also they dont know how to dispose of the spent batteries, just burying them along side the spent nuclear waste that we still haven learned how to dispose of yet we still build nuclear reactors !! They ran into this after the hurricains flooded the EV's with salt water and they caught fire. While we can choose to not use these new technologies, we will have to when the old tech supplies runout...and we still have not figgered out how to handle them them.
I put the fuel in, then add the appropriate amount of oil. 50 years on doing it that way and never wrecked one yet.
