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Ready4It

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Got a guy selling a force 9.9hp for cheap.
Reason is he ran it without oil in gas. It's sat for a month.
At the moment it's not seized and I'm not sure about the condition of the internals.

would it be worth buying?
if its worth buying, how can I inspect the condition it's in?
 
Worth buying as what? An anchor, a decoration?

If he paid you 20 bucks to haul it away and you paid the cost of potentially getting it fully back to working order you would likely have spent three times the value of a fully operational Force 9.9

There is two distinct "main model runs" of 9.9 Force.

Those that were "cobbled together" with parts found in some warehouse of the bankrupt Chrysler outboard plant.

Then there was those that were "cobbled together" by using a sledgehammer to make a long discontinued Merc part fit the less complete pile of parts they had left from the Chrysler outboard plant.

Neither model run was pretty. If you saw a 9.9 built in early 1984 and compared it to one built in the Summer of 84 and then late in the year in 84 you might be stunned to find that parts from the early build do not fit the mid and later build. There was "dozens" of sub-models.

If this was ran without gas and the pistons/cylinders got toasted, it isn't worth it's weight in scrap aluminum.

So from my perspective, if you got this for "nothing" because you were looking for something to piddle around with to improve your skills working on/rebuilding an outboard (without ever caring if it ran again), it does resemble an outboard.

If you are looking for a 9.9 that you actually want to hang on the back of a boat someday and count on to get you back to the dock without a long swim or a tow, you should perhaps look at something else.
 
galamb said:
Worth buying as what? An anchor, a decoration?

If he paid you 20 bucks to haul it away and you paid the cost of potentially getting it fully back to working order you would likely have spent three times the value of a fully operational Force 9.9

There is two distinct "main model runs" of 9.9 Force.

Those that were "cobbled together" with parts found in some warehouse of the bankrupt Chrysler outboard plant.

Then there was those that were "cobbled together" by using a sledgehammer to make a long discontinued Merc part fit the less complete pile of parts they had left from the Chrysler outboard plant.

Neither model run was pretty. If you saw a 9.9 built in early 1984 and compared it to one built in the Summer of 84 and then late in the year in 84 you might be stunned to find that parts from the early build do not fit the mid and later build. There was "dozens" of sub-models.
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Whoa! i didnt know that!

galamb said:
So from my perspective, if you got this for "nothing" because you were looking for something to piddle around with to improve your skills working on/rebuilding an outboard (without ever caring if it ran again), it does resemble an outboard.
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Yes, this was my intention. Just trying to improve my skills haha
 
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