I recently bought 2 motors thinking I could get them going so I could get a small boat put together for my son and I to use for fishing.
Both are 2 stroke - one is a mercury 8 tiller shift the other is a mariner 9.9. Neither of them had lower units attached and he gave me a box of parts for the lower units which is incomplete. I have both gear housings, water pump housings, 1 bearing carrier, 2 prop shaft 1 is bent, one drive shaft, and one shift linkage. There are a few gears but of course they only fit the bent prop shaft dog. He said he robbed the gears for a 15 hp because they were interchangable.
Anyway, I cant find any serial or model #s on either motor to figure out year and model to get parts.
I gotta ask though....what kind of jackass doesnt etch or stamp the #s somewhere so they cant just take a sticker off and make these things unidentifiable?? Seems kinda stupid to me but what do I know....
Anyway, since these are my first boat motors ever and looking at parts cost it might be cheaper to find complete lowers which leads me to my next problem...
I have called many different places and they dont have small motor parts... and the one place that did wanted 750-950 for replacement lowers.... which confused me cause I thought these motors were only worth $400 tops all together.
Sorry for the long winded post but Im not sure what to do here.
Thanks in advance for the help
forgot to mention that both units start and run
Both are 2 stroke - one is a mercury 8 tiller shift the other is a mariner 9.9. Neither of them had lower units attached and he gave me a box of parts for the lower units which is incomplete. I have both gear housings, water pump housings, 1 bearing carrier, 2 prop shaft 1 is bent, one drive shaft, and one shift linkage. There are a few gears but of course they only fit the bent prop shaft dog. He said he robbed the gears for a 15 hp because they were interchangable.
Anyway, I cant find any serial or model #s on either motor to figure out year and model to get parts.
I gotta ask though....what kind of jackass doesnt etch or stamp the #s somewhere so they cant just take a sticker off and make these things unidentifiable?? Seems kinda stupid to me but what do I know....
Anyway, since these are my first boat motors ever and looking at parts cost it might be cheaper to find complete lowers which leads me to my next problem...
I have called many different places and they dont have small motor parts... and the one place that did wanted 750-950 for replacement lowers.... which confused me cause I thought these motors were only worth $400 tops all together.
Sorry for the long winded post but Im not sure what to do here.
Thanks in advance for the help
forgot to mention that both units start and run
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