BoatBanter.com - View Single Post - Can you bolt a briggs & stratton motor to a outboard bottom end? Reason I ask...

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An added benefit of the b&s would be how cheap and reliable the whole
setup would be. All I do to safegaurd against issues with my b&s
motors is everytime I run it I burn all the remaining gas in the line
and bowl. This ensures no varnish and gum. Pretty simple procedure
that pays huge benefits.

99% of all problems me and my friends have had with b&s motors is the
varnish and gum that builds up from old gas from having let it setup
over winter. This is easy to resolve if you know how. Much easier to
winterize a b&s than a full blown outboard. Heck...I winterize my b&s
everytime I use it even in the middle of the summer...not cause I'm
anal, but I know better than to leave unspent fuel in the lines and
tank. Pretty simple...wouldn't you agree?

I think I might be winning some of you guys over. Comments?

I'm sure you're aware B&S do make small OBs using their ubiquitous engines.

You'd have normal OB neutral & reverse Randolf. When you get the bottom
end say from a scrap yard for almost nothing, just make sure you get the
engine tub as well, the shift lever linkage etc are all in that.
Probably just as cheap to buy a dead complete OB they're everywhere &
only worth their aluminium weight.

Then all you need is a coupling to connect up the OB's original drive
shaft, simple & cheap for almost any machine shop.

Your advantages are obvious, proper 4 stroke, no corrosion from the raw
water cooling, no need for the easily clogged & always needing service
water pump (just take the impeller out & chuck it) easy service & not
rip off priced parts should you need them, great idea & a doddle to do.

It might look a little "different" as most function clever things do,
but hey that's really cool & you will enjoy the endless queries from the
rubber neckers about the hows, who, wherefores, where can I get one & of
course the how much.

Good stuff don't follow the mob & do something a bit clever, again well
done.

Don't believe anything Krause says he's never owned a boat & only ever
been boating as a paying customer on charter boats, of course his lies
to the contrary are endless, oops there I go again talking of Krauses
lies:-)

K

Krause's lie of the day is a bit of a double header sorry, but so
many lies so little time:-)

Whenever his total lack of any real boating knowledge looks like
uncovering him as the sad little liar he is, he posts some crazy list of
boats he claims are his base, here are just a few of his claims, he has
tried to sustain these lies & as each one is shown to be a fabrication
he just invents a new one, the latest is the "Parker".

Don't feel conned nor stupid if you've been taken in by him, he
make exactly the same lies up in the jet ski NGs when he used to pollute
them with his crap, can you believe it he claimed to be a jet skier!!!!!
(responsible & caring in the socialist way of course:-))

This idiot has never owned a boat & never will he is totally devoid
of any boating experience nor knowledge, other than what he picks up in
this NG & the occasional paid charter fishing trip.

Here are some:

Hatteras 43' sportfish
Swan 41' racing/cruising sloop
Morgan 33
O'Day 30
Cruisers, Inc., Mackinac 22
Century Coronado
Bill Luders 16, as sweet a sailboat as ever caught a breeze.
Century 19' wood lapstrake with side wheel steering
Cruisers, Inc. 18' and 16' wood lapstrakes
Wolverines. Molded plywood. Gorgeous. Several. 14,15,17 footers
with various
Evinrudes
Lighting class sailboat
Botved Coronet with twin 50 hp Evinrudes. Interesting boat.
Aristocraft (a piece of junk...13', fast, held together with spit)
Alcort Sunfish
Ancarrow Marine Aquiflyer. 22' footer with two Caddy Crusaders.
Guaranteed 60 mph. In the late 1950's.
Skimmar brand skiff
Arkansas Traveler fiberglass bowrider (I think it was a bowrider)
Dyer Dhow
Su-Mark round bilge runabout, fiberglass
Penn Yan runabouts. Wood.
Old Town wood and canvas canoe
Old Town sailing canoe...different than above canoe

I own the following boats:

a 36' "lobster" style boat
a 19' center console fishing boat
an 11' inflatable dinghy
1/2 of a canoe

Those are the types of boats I currently own. I'm also in the market for
some interesting kind of lightweight flatbottomed skiff, similar to the
old Skimmar, for the "new" 51-year-old 10 hp outboard I recently bought.

One of the boats is kept on dry land within a half mile of Chesapeake
Bay. One is kept at a private covered boat dock in a little creek off
Chesapeake Bay. One is kept in the backyard of a friend who lives much
closer to the Shenandoah River than I do. And one is kept next to the
36-footer."