dhmeissner
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I have the little 2.3 Honda. Runs on the smell of gas, light weight with the only downside being it's a tad noisy being air cooled. I believe I paid right on a boat buck.
Im trying to sell my Honda 2.3 for $ 350 or 650 with a walker bay 8 ft . Hope to sell it at our marina flea market this weekend .
I just finished reading the reviews on the WM website. The little Mercury is definitely out of the running.
But it has to at least have a neutral which the Honda 2.3 does not. You have to go up to the 5 to get FNR and that weighs double. So there are no good solutions.
The older ones were water cooled and pretty quiet. Not sure when they made the transition..probably when they went from the 2 to the 2.3...
My Honda 2 HP has a centrifugal clutch. The prop is stopped at idle, then rotates as you give it gas. IMO, better than a neutral lever.
My Honda 2 is also air cooled and I agree....it's a bit noisy, even compared to my Merc 2-stroke 15HP. But it's so efficient, it runs for more than an hour on a quart of gasoline. My 2 gallon can gets me 4+ hrs of running time!
I love this little motor. Lightweight, reliable, simple to maintain, efficient and cheap! What more could you ask out of a 2HP motor?
For a small dink, I reckon you can't go past the wee Honda 2-2.3hp 4 stroke. No-one has mentioned the best feature of being air cooled is NO NEED TO FLUSH THE THING AFTER USE, and…you can do a quick start while still mounted on the bracket before putting on the dink, so you can know it will go 1st pull. Which function is almost guaranteed anyway, (unless the gas is way too old), because of not having oil in the fuel (Eric), so no plug fouling, and being so light, it's a snip to put on and off, so what's not to like..?
if you're not in a hurry (most trawlers are not..) that's one neat way to go!No-one has mentioned the best feature of being air cooled is NO NEED TO FLUSH THE THING AFTER USE, and…you can do a quick start while still mounted on the bracket before putting on the dink, so you can know it will go 1st pull.
thomasonw,
Is this a variation of the 4hp single cyl Merc? That would probably be over 40lbs.
Or is it a Tohatsu, Nissan or other brand engine.
In other words who made it?