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I have an opportunity to buy two different outboards. Both are late 70s models of similar HP ratings and will be used on a 24 foot pontoon boat. One is a Mariner inline 6 and the other is an Evinrude V4. The Mariner looks to have been well cared for but the more I look at it the more the design scares me. The Evinrude I'm more comfortable with as I'm running a straight 3 now. I will be doing a test run (on the muffs only) and a compression check on both motors.
Assuming they both check out which brand, more over design, would you buy.
I'm positing this here to avoid the OMC forum saying the Evinrude and the Mercury forum saying the Mariner.
Assuming they both check out which brand, more over design, would you buy.
I'm positing this here to avoid the OMC forum saying the Evinrude and the Mercury forum saying the Mariner.