Brobeil question

[fishkiller16]

Mine not so good over the years, I like silver lake marine better. A little side note on the E-Tec, last year while in Port Clinton on our May fishing trip we were at the dock and a guy got towed in that had a 150 E-Tec, we helped him load the boat on the trailer and got to talking to him, the current motor was seized up he and he was more than aggrivated come to find out this was his 7th E-Tec they kept blowing up. Needless to say when we saw him this year he had a brand new Yamaha 150 on his boat and couldn't be happier. This is not the only failure issues I have heard of among other issues. When they are flawless they are one of the best engines out but when they start having problems they suck because of all the computerized parts they have on them. Good luck (Imo I would look at the 4 strokers)

[wnyguy]

I bought a used johnson kicker, came with remote cables, along with all of the mounting hardware, ez steer bar and had them install it and couldn't be happier. I dealt with Fran himself, he was very straightforward and honest, answered lots of my questions up front, and in the end they ended up doing more work than they expected and didn't charge me a dime more, even after I offered to pay them more. (I am self employed myself) I considered buying the hardware myself and installing it, but it came out to be buy it all myself and save $250ish, or pay the $250 and have them install everything. A no brainer in my book, considering my lack of experience, and the fact that a lot of work on this boat is a PIA, which maybe is just the way boats are haha. They also never tried to talk me into buying anything. The only negative thing was that the work took longer than expected, but I suspect that is the nature of boat work at certain times of the year.

My one experience,

[copo427ss]

Mine not so good over the years, I like silver lake marine better. A little side note on the E-Tec, last year while in Port Clinton on our May fishing trip we were at the dock and a guy got towed in that had a 150 E-Tec, we helped him load the boat on the trailer and got to talking to him, the current motor was seized up he and he was more than aggrivated come to find out this was his 7th E-Tec they kept blowing up. Needless to say when we saw him this year he had a brand new Yamaha 150 on his boat and couldn't be happier. This is not the only failure issues I have heard of among other issues. When they are flawless they are one of the best engines out but when they start having problems they suck because of all the computerized parts they have on them. Good luck (Imo I would look at the 4 strokers)

X2 Jim on the e-tecs. I think a 4 stroke ob is the way to go