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I am looking at a used 2007 boat that has a 40 HP Evinrude Etek on it.I have no experiences with these motors.Are they any good???
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We blew 2 of those motors up at a hatchery I worked at. I know of a guide up here that had some of the earlier 40hp etec's on some of his skiffs and they had nothing but problems with them. Personally I wouldn't want one myself. I would with a honda or a yamaha.
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On the other hand...............
My dad has an E-Tec 50 on his wally boat. It's somewhere right in around a 2007.
It is the CHIT !!!
Quiet, VERY good fuel economy, trolls right down and will run the nads off any Hondoo or Yinga-haha of the same hp.
Just my $.02
Naturally, YMMV.
Wollen nicht krank dein feind. Planen es.
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Google e tek, you will se more bad reviews than all other motors combined. I was looking at a 30 tiller but was detoured by all the negative info. I even talked to two local outboard mechanics. One said run from a e tek the other said POS.
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Google e tek, you will se more bad reviews than all other motors combined. I was looking at a 30 tiller but was detoured by all the negative info. I even talked to two local outboard mechanics. One said run from a e tek the other said POS. Dunno. Pap's only been running his E-Tec 50 for about 7 years. So maybe that's not enough time to find out why it sucks so bad. I only know two things.......... all it's had put into it in those 7 years are gas & oil and it takes at least a 60 in ANY other brand of OB to run with it on a comparable boat. It is a BALLSY little OB with a very small appetite for fuel.
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I had a 25 hp on a small boat, ran it about 18 months without the first sign of trouble.
I just topped the oil tank off and filled her with gas. Only other thing was annual lower unit maintenance.
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