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    Yamaha 90 Two Stroke with 10 hours. Do I need to camera the pistons before buying.

    I have a chance to buy a 90 Yamaha two stroke with 6-10 hours on it. The boat was tarped so we didn't crawl under and look at the tach.This engine is about 8 years old and was tarped and under covered all its life, and they say it was fogged but I am not sure if it was fogged the whole time. I...
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    Rebuild or Scrap 90 Hp M90a Two Stroke

    I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this situation. I have an 18 boat with a Nissan 90Plus which is a Tohatsu M90a I believe. It has just had a major failure of which I don't know the exact details yet until the shop gets it apart, but safe to say it is time to rebuild or part it out...
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    90 HP Nissan 2001

    Does anyone have any general thoughts or experience with this motor. I am looking to buy a skiff with this motor. I am more interested in the skiff but I know that the carburated Tohatsu motors were very reliable, and I thought that the Nissans were actually Tohatsu engines. This particular...
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    50 Tiller Kit Tohatsu Where to find or look.

    Does anyone know where a guy could find a tiller kit (new or used) for the older Tohatsu carbuerated two strokes, M50's i think. They weren't that popular and engine back when Merc had most of the market and Yamaha had the other half. Even a scrapped engine could potentially work. EDIT Thanks...
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    BF 50 Honda runs great except acceleration problem

    I have a BF50 Honda that idles great and runs great, except one problem. If I slowly or sort of medium-ly apply the throttle it steps up without hesitation, but if i just crank on the throttle quickly it will stall or nearly stall before picking up again. I had it in to a mechanic last week and...
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    Yamaha 40 2 stroke gradually loses power

    Hello I have a 1998 40 Yamaha two stroke that runs like a top with good compression, but does have one issue. It runs fine on wot but sometimes after a few minutes it gradually starts slowing does just as if you very gradually were letting off the throttle. As soon as you let right off the...
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    Yamaha 40HP 2 stroke to 50 HP?

    I live in Canada and have a Yamaha 40 two stroke which weighed 153 lbs +/-.(without trim and tilt) This same identical motor was available in the US at 50 HP. I had talked to one of the dealers in Montana about this and he wasn't really sure if I could convert mine to 50 HP. He thought maybe...
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