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Re: The new "gassie" found me today

John Kohnen
 

I use Mercury Quicksilver motor oil. It's readily available locally (Bi-mart? W**mart) and I use so little of it that the extra cost doesn't matter. The manufacturer may get persnickety about what gear lube you use in the lower unit. Too bad Suzuki makes it so hard to get a free owner's manual online! <sigh> That's not a problem with Tohatsu/Nissan/Merc and Honda. <shrug> As far as I know Suzuki makes their own engines, or uses their own captive supplier. Tohatsu/Nissan/Mercury motors are completely different.

I'm sure you know that you open both the top and bottom plugs on the lower unit to drain the gear oil, then fill through the _bottom_ hole until the oil comes out the top hole. Then replace the top plug before pulling the gear oil tube nozzle, or pump nozzle, quickly and promptly replacing the bottom plug. It's time to change Lazy Jack's gear oil this winter... I use a cheap pump from Harbor Freight so I can buy more economical quantities of gear oil. I hope I can find what I had left over from last time! <g>

https://www.harborfreight.com/gear-oil-and-fluid-pump-61746.html

On 10/15/2021 8:07 AM, Electri-Cal wrote:
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I got all new lubricants coming in, after figuring what to get on line.  I have no factory instructions, so I'm not going someplace without a good look at what's correct.  There are special products for the smaller outboards, some that were for that year motor that need to be found, Four strokers seem easier, like lawn mowers.  Oils have changed, and I don't want to do something not a good idea.  The best most comprehensive work on this is applied to the Mercury version.  No surprise there, but I try to follow several that agree, when I find them.  Some reports are obviously by idiots looking for anybody who will look at bad movies, and semi-obvious small mistakes.
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John <jkohnen@...>
The proudest moments of my life have been passed in the stern-sheets of a boat with that romantic garment over my shoulders. (Robert Louis Stevenson about his boat cloak)
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