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09-30-2011, 02:28 PM
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Mid 1980's Suzuki 75 hp outboards
Anyone know much about the quality or any paricular good or bad points about mid 80's Suzuki outboards.
I'm toying around with picking up a 17' aluminum boat just for kickin around and fishing some local lakes and ponds at home when I can't get up to my Seacraft.I know nothing about Suzuki outboards of that vintage. The seller claims that he just had the dealer install a new fuel pump,water pump,plugs,etc.and that he had them do a compression test and all cylinders were at 120lbs. He's selling the boat (17' Sylvan) motor and trailer for 1900 bucks so it's not a lot of money.He says the motor runs good. I'm only going to be on small lakes and ponds so I'm not worried about small monor things,but also don't want a problematic motor. Anything I should know good or bad about that age motor.?
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09-30-2011, 07:54 PM
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John,
As far as the old Suzuki goes , I cannot help you... But when it comes to the tin boat "Yes I can" !!!! My Old 1964 Lonestar has been an gone more places than I and it should have probably gone to... I restored and converted this old beast in 1984. I love this old boat as much as I love my SeaCrafts! Take it for a test ride and if it feels good just Do-it!!! Hope it works out for you. See ya, Ken    
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10-01-2011, 03:16 PM
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Darn Bones,That's one nice looking tin boat,and a Lonestar no less.I owned several Aluminum boats and restored a couple.We bought a couple early 70's 18' Starcraft Holidays,and restored them.
New transoms, decks, paint,etc,and turned them into nice trolling rigs for the bigger salmom and lake trout lakes in New England. Lonestars were real common up my way back in the late 60's to early 70's,but I never saw one converted so beautifully into a flats boat as yours.Actually I never saw one converted into a flats boat at all.You did a beautiful job. Here's few pics of the 18' Starcraft Holiday I did over. It was originally a single motor cutout transom but we re-fabricated it into a wide open transom capable of running twin outboards.Bought a couple sheets of 5052 marine aluminum,made some cardboard patterns and got busy forming them in a brake. The twin 20hp rudes seem strange to most,but the reservoir we used to fish had a 20hp limit,but we also fished big lakes like Champlain where we needed speed so the twin 20's would get me to about 28-32 mph when we fished them.     http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/...interior-1.jpg
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All this,just for a boat ride Last edited by bigeasy1; 10-01-2011 at 03:22 PM.
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10-01-2011, 05:06 PM
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Mid-80's 75 hp 'Zukes
They're good motors. Early 80's motors had some problems with excessive corrosion when used in salt water without remediation. It's worth the cost of the gasket to pull the water jacket cover and look for electrolysis and corrosion in a motor that's spent it's life in salt water. If it's a salt motor, check the thermostat, too. Put a new impeller in every year if you use it in salt, and check/clean the thermostat.
Fresh water motors should be fine.
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10-01-2011, 11:16 PM
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They did not do well at all in saltwater, seems none of the jap motors do ??? other than that water test and it should be fine
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