Motor Help...BETEPOK 8???

[petey305]

Hi Everyone!<br /><br />I just got my first outboard. Got it for free also...so the price was right.<br /><br />Only Problem is...I don't know what it is!<br /><br />I think that it is an 8hp and I think it is russian. It says on it..BETEPOK 8 and has some Russian writing on the Serial Tag and says the year 1974.<br /><br />Anyone know anything about these motors? It looks like it is pretty decent condition (although it doesn't run...not sure why yet...just got it today).<br /><br />Any information you can give me as to it's orgin, make, places for manuals etc would be greatly appreciated.<br /><br />Pete

 

[Franki]

Re: Motor Help...BETEPOK 8???

well, I just tried a search for "BETEPOK outboard"<br />on google.com, metacrawler.com and yahoo.com and none of them had anything relevent to your needs.<br /><br />(google had some links, but I can't read russian, so don't know if they were relevant.<br /><br />sorry can't be of help, perhaps some of the others on the list will do better.. <br /><br />keep bumping the message and who knows???<br /><br />regards<br /><br />frank

 

[petey305]

Re: Motor Help...BETEPOK 8???

Thanks Frank.<br /><br />I did the same searches and got the same thing. I actually found a Russian translator and was able to read some of the pages.<br /><br />Apparently it is Russian Made (and from what the website said reliable). I guess the company was making motors until at least 1993, so I am not sure how easy/hard parts will be to come by.<br /><br />Thanks for helping out.<br /><br />Pete

 

[495v]

Re: Motor Help...BETEPOK 8???

I think I found a phone number for them if you have someone who can speak russian. try this link<br /> web page

 

[petey305]

Re: Motor Help...BETEPOK 8???

Actually I do know someone who can speak Russian (gotta love working for a multi-national company).<br /><br />That's great info! Thanks a lot!<br /><br />iboats.com is sweet <br /><br />Petey

 

[steelespike]

Re: Motor Help...BETEPOK 8???

Petey,let us know what you find.Who knows maybe they are made with old US patterns etc. Like they did with old Packard stuff. Hmmmmm.??

 

[Spidybot]

Re: Motor Help...BETEPOK 8???

Shortly after the USSR collaps, at lot of these motor popped up in the western world. From different sources to strange outlets. We saw them sold by a fella who trade (very) used trucks. Think he had some connectin over there from re-exporting old vehicles and got a lot of outboards in exchange. <br /><br />I think somebody got the idea of checking environmental specs for these motors and that was the end of it.

 

[martyscher]

Re: Motor Help...BETEPOK 8???

It's sounds like a COOL motor, but if it's rare enough (and hard enough to run and repair), you might want to just SELL it.<br /><br />There are plenty of outboard motor collectors out there and a "Russian" ob might be pretty rare. There may be some demand, but you would have to check around.<br /><br />You might make enough on the sale to at least make a large dent in the price of a newer OB motor.<br /><br />Who knows though, it could be the Yamaha of Lennigrad, run like a clock and give years of uninterupted service.

 

[suzukidave]

Re: Motor Help...BETEPOK 8???

Sell it or give it away. The coolness of it being Russian will get old fast when you are trying to start it in the middle of a lake at dusk. 8 or 9 years ago my brother had a Russian 2 stroke motorcycle with a similar name someone traded him for a debt. It was a horrendous piece of machinery. It smoked like crazy, constantly misfired and broke down. No one would work on it twice. One mechanic told him the motor was a bad copy of a World War 2 era BMW bike motor. I guarantee you can get a better outboard project for $50.