Originally Posted by Crow hunter
You can still buy two stroke outboards, the evinrude ETEC.

Any other two stroke outboard you can keep, they were all pieces of crap. The newer 4 strokes are 100X more reliable.

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of nostalgia there is for junk.

2 stroke yamaha 15, Circa 83 IIRC, still running, never had anything but a carb kit. Probably beat up 10 props already. Still runs just fine. We used to put hours on that thing, they we slowed up and a buddy needed one so its on loan to him. He fishes the river at his house sometimes at least 1-2 times a week...

Brand new yamaha 4 stroke 25.. dunno, maybe 2002 ish... ran fine at first, and then had to have carb cleaned between EVERY run.. morning/evening etc... found out though not the motor, the ethanol was eating up the fuel tank plastic.. so I put on about 200 bucks of new everything that would touch the damn ethanol.....

but I'm a bit OT... LOL

We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....