jiggerpolebill
Cadet
- Joined
- May 22, 2002
- Messages
- 11
it's my understanding that this production year model was occuring during the Bombardier(?) transition period. through hear-say, i've heard that the quality control was quite poor and a number of problems have resulted. has anybody else heard or experienced this first hand?<br /><br />my experience has been this:<br />my father lent me his boat for the summer. its a 2000 1446 Weldbilt with a 2000 25hp electric start Johnson. on the 3rd of this month, i was on the lake, idling at the time, when the motor quit with a sudden thud. i thought i might have hit something, but i was in 30 feet of water in a very well traveled channel. i inspected the prop, but it showed no damage. to make a long story short, one of the bolts holding the stator assembly had worked its way lose and wedged between one of the permanent magnets on the flywheel. this caused the entire stator assy to rotate about 130 degrees out of the norm, causing much pain and suffering to the throttle linkage, the flywheel and myself.<br /><br />i took it to the repair shop and the mechanic there had never seen anything like it. i asked him about the quality control rumor and he said he had heard and seen firsthand the same thing. he told me that he had had 2000 year models come in with loose screws on the coils, but never what had happened to mine. the final outcome was a new flywheel(the old one had a large portion of one of the magnets missing and a visible fracture for a future chunk to come loose) and some rather pricey throttle parts.<br /><br />what experiences has anybody on this forum had with 2000 Johnson/Evinrude outboards? thanks for any info and good luck on the water.
