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Originally Posted by McGillicuddy
Thread revival from last August... Has anyone opted for this motor?
Com'on Terry of the 3 Lions, what say you 2-s faithful, does the torque curve allow consideration? ..have I lost my way?
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Gillie my friend, I am a not a good person to ask about the "Black" motors. You see Neptune has placd a hex on me which prevents me from getting back to port under my own power any two times consecutively with one of the Fond-du-Lac Wonders. You see as a child of the 50's I had the "Black" motors back when they were "Green" and only went forward. They were real fast but I could never mow enough lawns to keep them out of the shop so that actually greatly reduce the number of opportunities to be towed home. Then Mr. Keikauffer came out with white ones. They were bigger, swept back and had F-N-R on the side but still ate coils like Michael Moore eats donuts and I wore out three lawn mowers one summer trying to keep the cash flow going for the chance to be towed in every third trip out. This was the formative part of my life and it is partly the reason I am the way I am. Finally I determined the Nordic name "Johnson" might be more pleasing to Neptune than the name Keikauffer, which in Austrian actually means "get towed home". So when I was in high school I finally bought a Johnson 28 Ski-Twin and bolted it on a 15' skiff. Well it just ran and ran and ran - camping on spoil islands, skiing, Snook fishing at Egmont Key. Put the key in and go anytime I wanted to and brought me home everytime. I forgot to put the oil in once and seezed it pulling a skier. I put the oil in the gas can real fast, like that wa going to help and in a few minutes I touched the key to see if I could limp home. It lit right up so we kept right on skiing - 10 years later it was still running strong when I traded it in on a Welcraft 17 with twin 50 horse Johnsons. They never missed a beat and one only dropped about a thousand RPMs when I leaned it out and put a hole in the piston. Bored it out stuck a pistion in it and kept on truck'in. They brought me back to the dock every time too. I was doing some work on a marina in the 70's when I saw a 20' Safari - White hull, white deck. I was in love. I did notice that it had a Mercrusier in it and thought to myself Neptune don't give a dang what I'm runn'in and he's got plent of other mariners to worry with now. Well he was "layin for me". I pushed more of my friends boats home on the end of a rope than I can imagine. I finally ran out of friends! Nobody would go Buddy Boat'in with me because we never got home until 10 PM. I was repeating the full band width of curse words I
had gleened with the Green and White Merc's in my formative years. Gimbal bearings, bellows, trim cylinders, block cracks, shift triggers, rusting pullies and alternator brackets. I addition to working 48 hours a week, i had to take on a part time job mowing lawns again just to get the dang thing out of the shop for a week or two before the Black Curse struck. So the deal is scar tissue lasts for a long time and I've had too good of luck with the White motors to go foolin' around with success. I know plenty of people like you, Don V, Sandy, Ken and Sulli who have had exceptional service from the Black Mauraders, but they "ran me off" decades ago. Ever since I had the White ones I just mow my own lawn.