Mercury Outboards

[redaddiction]

When the new emissions rules came out several years ago, 2 strokes were meant to be phased out. I guess we are now at that point. I was a mercury guy with the 2-strokes. But I would only buy a Yamaha or Suzuki 4-stroke.

[clay67]

Originally Posted by redaddiction

When the new emissions rules came out several years ago, 2 strokes were meant to be phased out. I guess we are now at that point. I was a mercury guy with the 2-strokes. But I would only buy a Yamaha or Suzuki 4-stroke.

I wouldn't count out these new four strokes. My step dad used to take care of the crew boats for a drilling company. He said they repowered some 26 footers with twin mercury 150 hp 4strokes and had no issues up to 1600 hrs and counting. Except lower units but even the honda 150 hp motors had that problem. Some of the honda motors had 4500 hrs though and that is high for commercial use outboards. He said the mercury was 10 mph faster as well. The 38 foot boats had big verados and he said the first and second generation was junk but the third generation was good. They had so much trouble with the early verados that mercury sent their engineers down here a couple times to talk to him.