"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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CCred68046 wrote:
It really behooves you to learn as much as you can about your motor. Buy
a
shop
manual and read it. That is usually all the guy at the dealer has done
and he
probably doesn't read the whole chapter until after he is a couple parts
into
the easter egg hunt.


Man you got that right!!! I love my old Johnson V-4. Its bad enough my
car is
way over my head, I dont need my boat there too.



I have the shop manual for my Yamaha F225. It's convinced me to keep
mitts off the engine.

It's worth having so you can double-check that you're not swindled by your
mechanic into replacing your fanozolator more often than you have to. Are
the 4-strokes every 50 or 100 hours for that service?