Small Outboards

[jgp12000]

My son-in-law just got a Lowe 1860 Roughneck boat hunting/fishing boat it will handle 6 folks. With our type fishing it is the perfect boat. They are having a blast with the grandkids at a local lake 10 mins from their house swimming grilling on the beach it's great!

https://www.loweboats.com/hunt-fish/roughneck/tiller/roughneck-1860-dt.html

It gave me the fever to get my Jon boat back in action the 74' Evinrude ain't firing on one cylinder. I haven't looked at it in awhile but everything electrical is new but I know being in electronics new parts can be bad. I am going to swap the known good parts one at a time from the good side to the bad.
Plug, points,& coil. All that's left is the flywheel after that.

Anyway a few years ago I bought a 2.5 Suzuki @ online Outboards for my 12ft Jon boat. It was for a great price, its 4 stroke internal gas tank, & weighs only 30# it starts one pull.

I was looking at 9.9HP electric start outboards today & it appears the Honda is the lowest price & has a Carb.

9.9 HP is the largest motor that can be used in our state parks & it's plenty enough for my 14ft Jon boat I don't care about going any faster.

I was told on Tohatsu motors though the only difference in a 9.9 & 15hp is a  governing spacer in the handle that could be removed in the past?

I was thinking Tohatsu & Mercury are the same on the smaller outboards? The Tohatsu are EFI, Honda has Carb but I have always heard the Honda was a good motor.

I do like the look of White Suzuki though, I can fix mine for a lot less but it's fun to look ! 

https://boatmaxonline.com/products/suzuki-9-9-hp-outboard-motor-model-df9-9bthlw5

[Crab Pot]

Can't go wrong with any of the modern 4-stokes, IMO.

There are a few lakes that put HP limits here as well. My buddy bought a used cowl and then bought a 9.9 decal set for his 15hp motor. Where there's a will there's a way!

Steve