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Bombardier to discontinue Evinrude outboard motors and Sea Doo sport boats

steve45
This has been coming for awhile but now its official
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  • savage170
    Back in the 70's I bought a Evinrude  9.9 that was a great motor I sold it just a couple years ago  and it still ran great
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  • varian
    OMC corporation looked to the future and hid in the past.  they built good motors but the japanese built excellent ones and then along came the four strokes.  bombardier who bought out OMC thought they could continue to build the 2 strokes, good motors made lots of horsepower with less weight but people didnt want them.  but there are a lot of older OMC's out there that will run and give good service for a lot more years especially the smaller ones.  
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  • bullshot
    Bombardier has sold off most of their holdings, they are still holding on to the production of three business class jets but have shed their interest in trains and all commercial aircraft.


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  • pulsarnc
    Most of my motors thru the years have been evenrude . Always good service from them
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  • sharpshooter039
    varian: 31540441392027/comments/31540487168411
    OMC corporation looked to the future and hid in the past.  they built good motors but the japanese built excellent ones and then along came the four strokes.  bombardier who bought out OMC thought they could continue to build the 2 strokes, good motors made lots of horsepower with less weight but people didnt want them.  but there are a lot of older OMC's out there that will run and give good service for a lot more years especially the smaller ones.  

    Many lakes no longer allow 2 strokes..

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  • Okie
    Flying Clay Disk wrote:
    and had another one which would start and run great...just enough to strand you miles from the dock, d then it wouldn't start no matter what you tried. 
    I had an Old Champion outboard engine that would do the same.
    Get out of sight of the boat ramp and the wind come up blowing hard from the direction you needed to go to get back to the ramp and it would not start. Had to really watch the wind direction and not kill the engine if the wind direction was from the boat ramp.  Adds new meaning to the term downstream with a good paddle. Had to keep a big trolling motor battery ready and sometimes still had to use the paddle.
    Get to the ramp and load the boat and it would start.
     I could repair OMC Evinrude/Johnson outboards blindfolded, still have few good ones, 40hp and down, but I stayed away from the old Merc's.  
    Several Edsels type outboards were around in the 70's-80's, such as OMC electric shift, Scot-Atwater, old Merc's and some air cooled engines that appears to ne Briggs lawn mower engines.
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  • pulsarnc

    I had one that gave me the same problem, would get hot and only ruin on two of the four cylinders . Finally found a crack in the distributor coil . Get hot it expanded enough to short out . Let cool and good to go for a while . Replaced coil fixed problem . It was an old electric shifty 100 hp . Used it for close to twenty years

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  • Sam06
    I Raced a 1975 CanAm MX2 250 with a Bombardier motor.  It was a good bike and got me into the 250 class. 

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  • mogley98
    Interesting I had a Evinrude 115 that ran forever, my mechanic told me to always use TC3 or something like that oil and high test gas, never had a problem.
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  • Smitty500mag
    As far as I'm concerned they quit making Johnson and Evinrudes outboards when they started using plastic or fiberglass cowling and other plastic parts back in the 60s and even some in the late 50s. 

    I've still got my old '66 Johnson 3hp Seahorse and my '57 model 5 1/2 hp Evinrude that are still running like they were 54 and 63 years ago respectively.




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  • asop
    Savage-Still have mine!  These all had 2 piston rings but shortly there after they built them with only one :(
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  • buddyb
    I bought a 40 HP mariner outboard new in 1985.It is a rebranded Yamaha.Still have it and it still runs like new.Changed the lower unit oil and impeller a few times and always used non ethanol gas. I hate to see great old names like Evinrude and Johnson go under.
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  • varian
    the 4 cyl  {85-140 hp} omc motors were very good in their day.  here on the gulf coast they were the motor of choice for many years.   Smitty, i have a 1957  7.5 like your blue one, still runs great.
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  • Junkballer
    savage170 said:
    Back in the 70's I bought a Evinrude  9.9 that was a great motor I sold it just a couple years ago  and it still ran great
    I bought mine in the same time period......still got it & it runs perfect, easy to work on and replacement parts are plentiful  and fairly cheap.   :)
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