On 8 Apr 2007 08:11:24 -0700, "GeoffSchultz"
wrote:

Quite often your posts are very insightful, but sometimes they reek of
personal bias which often isn't born out by other's experience. This
is such a post.

I don't know which Yamahas you've looked at, but mine has a "proper"
metal cap. The problem is with the stator as the coil is an open
circuit.

Larry had a little "incident" with a Yamaha jet boat that didn't live
up to his expectations many years ago.