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how come when you look for your manual on this site it has you choose HP and then a screen comes up with a series of letters-numbers that you choose from to match a specific year model manual?Nope! Still somewhere between 1998 and 2003. Take a picture of the top carburator and we might be able to narrow it down to within a couple years...they made a slight change during this period.
Mike
The letter/number combination is the frame serial number. It is different than the one on the block.
You might also look for a frame serial number plate on the top of the swivel case. Item #7 http://www.boats.net/parts/search/Honda/Outboard Engine/2000/BF50AY LRTA VIN%23 BAZS-3200001 TO BAZS-3209999/SWIVEL CASE/parts.html
There were a couple of years when they put the serial number plate there. It was always hard to find and read.
Mike
Mike