Outboard Problem
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It does not take much to clog a passageway inside these small engines. A little mud & shell mixed with some jelly-like sea creature will do it and with typical dinghy use, one can occasionally run the low water intake through sand or mud and pick something up. As John Prine says, "Same thing happened to me". (But mine was a '95 Johnson 88 hp SPL....a very simple engine but I fished shallow and I got a clog in an elbow up high). The stuff was like concrete...
It does not take much to clog a passageway inside these small engines. A little mud & shell mixed with some jelly-like sea creature will do it and with typical dinghy use, one can occasionally run the low water intake through sand or mud and pick something up. As John Prine says, "Same thing happened to me". (But mine was a '95 Johnson 88 hp SPL....a very simple engine but I fished shallow and I got a clog in an elbow up high). The stuff was like concrete...
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As others had said, the Yamaha head is not a disadvantage. My Celica GT4 turbo-charged, AWD car is Toyota through and through, but the brilliant 4 valve per cylinder, fuel injected head, is from Yamaha. Must have been a good reason.
But, what was the trouble proven to be in the end, or is that still a mystery..?
