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Nissan Outboards?
I would appreciate some thoughts and advice from the experts out there. I've
run outboards for about 30 years, but all were Mercs or Johnson in a freshwater environment. I recently moved to the coast and have been searching for a small boat to use in creeks and inlets. I've found about what I'm looking for, but it has a 2002 Nissan 70hp, and I know absolutely nothing about these motors. If anyone has any experience with Nissan outboards, good or bad, I'd appreciate your comments. Thanks, ~OC~ |
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If anyone has any experience with Nissan
outboards, good or bad, I'd appreciate your comments. O.C., you have stumbled upon one of the finest (Tohatsu) outboards ever built. My last two boats were powered by Tohatsu 40's, and neither one ever messed up a boating trip! Enjoy..Mark C. |
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Around 11/27/2004 7:03 AM, OC wrote:
I would appreciate some thoughts and advice from the experts out there. I've run outboards for about 30 years, but all were Mercs or Johnson in a freshwater environment. I recently moved to the coast and have been searching for a small boat to use in creeks and inlets. I've found about what I'm looking for, but it has a 2002 Nissan 70hp, and I know absolutely nothing about these motors. If anyone has any experience with Nissan outboards, good or bad, I'd appreciate your comments. Thanks, ~OC~ As far as I've been able to tell, the designs for the sub-90hp Nissan/Tohatsu motors haven't changed much since about the late 80s, and for good reason. I've been _very_ pleased with my Nissan 40D. I've been running it in the Puget Sound and Gulf islands for about six summers now, and I have absolutely no complaints about the motor. Starts up the first try every spring, and it'll keep running as long as I keep giving it gas and oil. I bought a Haynes manual "just in case," but thus far I've never had to go past the "basic maintenance" chapter in the front; Even that was more for idle curiosity's sake. About all I've had to do is change the lower unit oil, check the plugs, and grease up a few zerk fittings. Like with all outboards, if your creeks and inlets are salt or brackish, make sure to flush the motor thoroughly with earmuffs ASAP after pulling it out of the water. -- ~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat" "There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." -Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows |
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"OC" wrote in message
m... ..... If anyone has any experience with Nissan outboards, good or bad, I'd appreciate your comments. Thanks for all the feedback. I didn't realize Nissan and Tohatsu are related. Tohatsu seems to be a popular motor down here on many of the commercial workboats. Sounds like it's worth checking out. ~OC~ |
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