I need to buy a new outboard for my 9 ft. dinghy, I was looking at the 9.8
hp Tohatsu primarily for price reasons. Does anyone have any input about the
Tohatsu product? Are they good or do they have problems? Should I pony up a
$200 more dollars and get a Mercury or Evinrude?

RD

Just got one as a replacement for an 8 hp Johnson on my 11 foot zodiac.
WOW! It's a great engine so far ... light, quiet for a 2 stroke and
seems to be fairly fuel efficient.

The performance increase of my zodiac is tremendous.

The Tohatsu is a Nissan.

Rick

RD wrote:
I need to buy a new outboard for my 9 ft. dinghy, I was looking at the 9.8
hp Tohatsu primarily for price reasons. Does anyone have any input about the
Tohatsu product? Are they good or do they have problems? Should I pony up a
$200 more dollars and get a Mercury or Evinrude?

RD

The Tohatsu is a Nissan.
I think the Nissan is a Tohatsu is more correct. I've had a 9.8 for about a
year. Had a little trouble with it in Alaska where water would get into the
fuel. Other than that its been great and you can't get a lighter outboard at
9.8hp.

Paul
www.jcruiser.org

"Rick" wrote in message
...
Just got one as a replacement for an 8 hp Johnson on my 11 foot zodiac.
WOW! It's a great engine so far ... light, quiet for a 2 stroke and
seems to be fairly fuel efficient.

The performance increase of my zodiac is tremendous.

The Tohatsu is a Nissan.

Rick

RD wrote:
I need to buy a new outboard for my 9 ft. dinghy, I was looking at the
9.8
hp Tohatsu primarily for price reasons. Does anyone have any input about
the
Tohatsu product? Are they good or do they have problems? Should I pony
up a
$200 more dollars and get a Mercury or Evinrude?

RD

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:09:38 -0700, "RD" wrote:

I need to buy a new outboard for my 9 ft. dinghy, I was looking at the 9.8
hp Tohatsu primarily for price reasons. Does anyone have any input about the
Tohatsu product? Are they good or do they have problems? Should I pony up a
$200 more dollars and get a Mercury or Evinrude?

RD


I had a Tohatsu 5 for years, and it survived an early dunking into
salt water with no problems. (I grabbed it while it was still
floating.) Utterly reliable.

I now have a Tohatsu 9.8 that I bought a year ago and finally fueled
and started a couple of days ago. It started on the second pull...

Tohatsu makes the small Nissans and they at least used to make the
small Mercurys. A detuned Tohatsu 5 was also called a Mercury 4. You
might take the cover off the Tohatsu and a similar HP Mercury and see
if the block is the same.

They are great... don't spend extra.

--


Keith
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"People waste time, effort and money on all kinds of things that don't make
sense, when by owning a boat one can consolidate and waste them all on one
thing."
- Mike Hughes
"RD" wrote in message
...
I need to buy a new outboard for my 9 ft. dinghy, I was looking at the 9.8
hp Tohatsu primarily for price reasons. Does anyone have any input about
the
Tohatsu product? Are they good or do they have problems? Should I pony up
a
$200 more dollars and get a Mercury or Evinrude?

RD