Forums reflect popularity or reliability ?

[JasonJ]

Re: Forums reflect popularity or reliability ?

It is a shear numbers thing. There were simply more OMCs built and sold than Mercs. We don't need to get in a reliability war, both products are fine, and give decades of service when properly maintained. I have a Merc main motor, and a Johnson kicker. Both of which are older than me and still run flawlessly.

 

[Pony]

Re: Forums reflect popularity or reliability ?

"I'm gonna go with reliability primarily.....but every motor i have ever run ever has been a johnnyrude.....so maybe popularity. idk"<br /><br />just to be clear with you dsrchamp04 i posted that specifically for the purpose of saying its a matter of numbers and thats all.....the fact the i have only run johhnyrudes should show you i have a bias, and therefor my opinion is weighted. i'm sure there are plenty out there who have only run mercs and think the same thing. I prolly didnt need to say anything, just didnt want you thinking I was ignorant. sorry. <br /><br />JasonJ is right, any motor is good if maintained.....

 

[dsrchamp04]

Re: Forums reflect popularity or reliability ?

i understand you pony 85...im partial too the mercurys myself....None of em are worth a crap when they are broke

 

[R.Johnson]

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Originally posted by dsrchamp04:<br /> If this thread isnt proof that any goober with an internet connection cant be an online marine tech with all the answers then i guess i will never see one?? You guys who dont know what your talking about should just learn to be quiet and appear ignorant rather than proving it too everyone else who is qualified too give credible information too the folks who need it!

I would be glad to sit down, and discuss outboard engines with you.

 

[BillP]

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Originally posted by dsrchamp04:<br /> If this thread isnt proof that any goober with an internet connection cant be an online marine tech with all the answers then i guess i will never see one?? You guys who dont know what your talking about should just learn to be quiet and appear ignorant rather than proving it too everyone else who is qualified too give credible information too the folks who need it!

Originally posted by dsrchamp04:<br /> I didnt call anyone an idiot...i used the term ignorant...and it quite obviously fits. If your gonna post trash...wether its an opinion or not..then you had better expect that not everyone is gonna agree with you or like what you have too say. Im sure that you will find out that my comments will not offend the folks on here that do such a good job of helping others out with factual and credible information.

That's the most ignorant trash talk I've seen in a long time! <br />

 

[Chinewalker]

Re: Forums reflect popularity or reliability ?

No opinion - just facts here...<br /><br />Johnson outboards ALONE had built 2-million outboards by 1959 in the U.S. Evinrude had similar number count by about the same period. Mercury hit 1-million in 1956 (assuming all allocated serial numbers were actually used, which they weren't) and 2-million in 1966. By that same period Johnson and Evinrude were each up to about 3-million apiece, making it an approx. 3-1 ratio of OMCs to Mercs at that time. I'm not sure how the ratio stood up through the 1970s and 1980s, but it gives you a good basis for the OMCs to Mercs posting rates.... This doesn't even factor in the 1-million Johnsons (not even including Evinrudes) built in Peterboro, Ontario by the early 1970s...<br />- Scott

 

[Moody Blue]

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dsrchamp, had a bad day at home or the office ? What possessed you to make such an unprovoked statement? This is a forum made up of many members of a wide variety of backgrounds and interests. I have found all information here to be of some value, some more and some less. I don't expect absolute answers to any of the questions because I don't know the posters personally and can't confirm their qualifications or credentials (no disrespect intented to anyone). Use of common sense and the forum basis is a great way to pick out bits and pieces of info that you are able, or choose to use.<br /><br />What "value" have you contibuted to this particular post? The only ignorance I am witness to are your two statements here. Oh, and by the way, thanks for illustrating you technical mastery and providing such an insightful view into your opinions of the members here.

 

[dsrchamp04]

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Bill P. and Rod C., Please by all means keep posting....its great that everytime you contribute too this particular post you do a great job of justifying my point in the first place. I will never be able too explain my comments,as I thought it was quite clear from the start.Keep on spinning and side tracking boys..Im sure im not the only one amused by your feeble attempts to prove how your intelligence towers over your ignorance..btw....GOOD LUCK!!

 

[cobra 3.0]

Re: Forums reflect popularity or reliability ?

Can you say ARROGANT?

 

[BoatBuoy]

Re: Forums reflect popularity or reliability ?

dsrchamp, I'd be interested to know what your answer would be to the original question.

 

[ratracer]

Re: Forums reflect popularity or reliability ?

dsrchamp is a troll.<br /><br />Not a very good one, either.

 

[BillP]

Re: Forums reflect popularity or reliability ?

Originally posted by dsrchamp04:<br /> I will never be able too explain my comments,as I thought it was quite clear from the start.

You thought wrong and your comments have no basis for credibility.<br /><br />So far you have contributed nada to the question but I get it now. You are a merc guy with limited exposure...who wasn't on the waterfront running omcs and mercs in saltwater in the 50s & 60s. You don't even know anyone who used mercs in saltwater back then, right? You think mercs today are the same as then.<br /><br />Here's a fact Jack...early mercs didn't hold up in saltwater and fizzed away compared to omcs of the same era. I had a mid 50s 15hp Evinrude and late 50s Merc Mk 20 at the same time. The merc corroded up quickly and the omc didn't. The merc was newer and went to the junk yard about 20 years before the omc did. All mercs had the same problems with saltwater in those days.

 

[dsrchamp04]

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Ok...I digress.....Your all correct..Im a troll and your all correct and justified with your comments....Boy did you teach me a big lesson..I am so very sorry for ever saying a word...You folks are way above my level of thinking. I only hope that one day I can grow up and be the big thinking problem solvers that everyone on this post is...Please forgive me for thinking that i could ever be a big minded heavy hitter like you all!! I am so put in my place by such high level thinking!! Is there anything else I could ever do too prove how wrong I am and how smart you guys are???

 

[TOHATSU GURU]

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You could click your heels together and say three times....There's no place iboats, there's no place like iboats, there's no place like iboats.

 

[dsrchamp04]

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You make my point greatly elvin...there truly is no place like iboats....and if i have too take some heat too keep this the great place that it truly is then it is well worth the heat!!!

 

[Pony]

Re: Forums reflect popularity or reliability ?

Well now I am afraid to comment but.....I don't think that the number of posts have much to say about reliability. The Yamaha/Suzuki forum has almost the same number of topics as Chystler/Force forum. I feel its fairly obvious that the Yamaha's are better engines than Force, but the number of topics wouldnt suggest it if going on reliability as a factor in that number of said topics.

 

[north40]

Re: Forums reflect popularity or reliability ?

"Can't we all just get along?"......Rodney King

 

[north40]

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"Can't we all just get along?"......Rodney King

 

[dobers]

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whats that sound sounds like a mercury fading away to the sweet exhaust note of my jrude<br /><br />just kidding but keep up the good posts makes for some amusing reading

 

[Realgun]

Re: Forums reflect popularity or reliability ?

I want a Jonnyrude not a Merc if that helps. <br /><br />Daddy had a big thing for Merc. I am not Daddy.