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2 Free Small outboard Boat engines, Can They Be Saved?

   November 12, 2025  46 Comments on 2 Free Small outboard Boat engines, Can They Be Saved?

while cleaning up the garage these 2 outboards have been sitting many years, one was from a free pile and the other I believe came from a yard sale very cheap. lets see if they are any good and can be brought back to life.

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46 thoughts on “2 Free Small outboard Boat engines, Can They Be Saved?”

  2. This guy is so legit! I know a damn good mechanic when I see one. He didn't clean the carb, and that kinda bothers me, but I'm OCD with engines. He is just trying to get them running he's not trying to rebuild them 😂

  3. Just sitting here watching intently and I had the funniest thought. We created a power source in the internal combustion engine that basically requires the same thing as we or any living thing needs to function. Fuel – Gas for the engine – food for us. Engine has an electrical system so do we. Engine needs air to breath so do we. The engine needs everything running in proper order so do we. Now we gave engines brains to. Almost all of them today are computerized and you can communicate with them 😂

  6. Glad to watch you tinker… you were trying to plug that line in the wrong way. I'm sure it fits. The little silver clip side goes into the brass end on the motor.

  16. That paw is a reverse lock when in reverse that hook comes down to stop the motor from lifting out of the water in forwards it is up just incase the motor hit bottom it can still swing up

  31. @Mustie, the black engine, there is something wrong with the idle adjust screw. when you took it apart, i heard a pop or snap, then when you put it together, it didnt move the arm like it did earlier in the video to actually adjust the idle.

  33. I prefer Johnson/Evinrude OMC. With that said Yamaha>Mercury. I had a pair of Mercury 20hp years ago. They looked identical. Come to find out in a 3 year span they had like 7 diff ignition systems. Screw Merc.

  35. I say again as I have before, thank you.
    By watching you through the years I've learned so much. Your ferreting out the little idiosyncrasies that certain manufacturers incorporate in their machines and parts has saved me hours of time searching.
    You are the MAN…

  36. 1:29:55 If I remember correctly I’ve worked on one of those many years ago if you pull off the lower leg there should be a coupler there but I can be wrong and if I remember it was on a mariner

  39. 1:11:20 For crying out loud I thought you were gonna pull those two 12 mm or 13 mm or whatever the heck size those two bolts are that that shifter goes into on the underside of the engine because that would make the best sense

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