Johnson Outboards ?

[Defender=1st]

Hey everyone i have the opportunity to buy a 12 foot tinny, trailer and 15hp Johnson 4 stroke, electric start...for a total of $3000..the motor has only has half a tank of fuel through it....(bloke bought it and decided he liked camping better)
but i know very little about Johnson outboards ...so has anybody had any experience with with them ???
This is the motor Johnson 15 4 stroke Outboard (http://www.leisure-marine.com.au/johnson/15johnson.asp)
Thanks
Adrian

[Pedro_The_Swift]

wouldnt just the motor be worth that much??

[lro11]

Adrian for 3k give me the guys number and I will buy it I sold my 12' tinny with a 1977 25 evinrude for $2500

[roverrescue]

Johnson 4 strokes are a Suzuki 4 stroke in a white cowling.
Arguably the best 4 strokes made at present. It will be quiet and frugal but 15 horsies may be a bit under gunned depending on your plans for it.

With boats however, I am of the school you can never have enough horsies! (In the salt we run a worked 30hp 2 banger on a 12 footer, but then a nice quiet & light 9.9hp in the fresh???)

$3k is a good price for that rig... depending on what you wanna do (and how fast)...
If its hardly been used I cant imagine you will have problems with the outboard.

regards
Steve

[Defender=1st]

wouldnt just the motor be worth that much??

Yer he said he only wants to get back what he paid for the motor.

[Stepho_62]

G'day Adrian

I had an 11m Cruiser moored @ the Bellerive Yact club for about 5 years. I used to have a 7hp Suzuki 2 stroke on a 3m tunnel hull and eventually it sucuumbed to the inevitable marinised 2 stroke issues (outta round bore, corosion etc etc etc)

I went to lewis's n brought a 2.5hp Honda 4 stroke for $999. :eek:

Now i know its only a teenie little motor but if the Johnson/susuki is any match it will be the best thing since sliced bread. Start first pop, cheap to run, quiet, heaps of grunt (try a little prop tuning, its a black art but worth doing)

Mine because of its size has no waterpump, no gearbox and is simlicity itself

[crump]

I have a 40hp 2 stroke jonno thats 15 years old and runs like a clock, great motors.