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...I'm thinking about getting the repair manual for a johnson 115 and starting to get familiar with it. If I end up getting a different type of engine will that have been a waste of time?
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I bought
Outboard Engines: Maintenance, Troubleshooting and Repair a few years ago. You can get it used on Amazon for about ten bucks.
It doesn't provide enough detail on specific engines for you to actually work on them, but it does provide an excellent overview on how two stroke outboards work. Reading through it gave me the basic understanding I needed so that when I did get the factory service manual for my Merc outboards I understood what I was looking at. It might be a better option than a service manual as an introduction to capacitor discharge ignition, reed valves, oil injection, etc. that are common to most of the outboards manufactured in the last 20 years.
Dave