Re: Website on how to restore outboards?
You can try the "Wayback Machine," an internet archive.
http://www.archive.org/index.php
Just plug in an old site you're looking for and click "Take me back"
I put
www.outboard-boat-motor-repair.com/ in the Wayback and
it brought me to several versions of Tom's Old Evinrude Johnson Outboard Boat Motor Tune Up Site, listed by date. Here's one:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070609221439/http://www.outboard-boat-motor-repair.com/
That's Tom's main page. Most links from there work, some do not.
If a link doesn't work, put the url from that missing link into the Wayback machine, and hopefully it will find it.
Finding the url for the missing link is a bit tricky (for me, anyway - I'm not THAT computer savy). Clicking a dead link from a Wayback page apparently puts ".way_back_stub" in the middle of the dead link's url on the address bar. Just remove the ".way_back_stub" from the dead link's url in the address bar, copy the dead link url from the address bar with the ".way_back_stub" removed (so there's no spaces where ".way_back_stub" used to be). Then paste that shortened url from the address bar into the Wayback. At least that's what I did - there's probably an easier way.
That's how I found an archive copy of this dead link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060614...5+HP+Seahorse+Outboard+Boat+Motor/default.htm
Also, Wayback automatically puts the "http://" at the beginning of the search box. (If you paste in a long url, you might not notice this.) If Wayback doesn't find anything for you, make sure you didn't copy and paste a url with the "http://", otherwise Wayback will look for an archived site beginning with "http://http://", and won't find anything.
Good luck,
Jim
