Old outboard motors

[GOPAPA]

[QUOTE=LONGHAIR;9113882]When you said "old", I didn't really expect that old....LOL

My brother just got told that his 1982 Mercury boat motor was to old for the shop to work on it..

[special-K]

[quote=GOPAPA;9113893]

Originally Posted by LONGHAIR

When you said "old", I didn't really expect that old....LOL

My brother just got told that his 1982 Mercury boat motor was to old for the shop to work on it..

Sounds like he took it to a worthless shop. That's what Harley Davidson dealerships do. They send owners of anything but the current engines design away. All those owners are given no choice but to find a competent Harley shop. It doesn't mean the bike can't be fixed. It means that dealership can't fix it*

* I'm sure someone there could, but it's a business decision. They can make money off of every newer bike repair. Older stuff sometimes takes more to fix due to deterioration and harder to find parts.

[GOPAPA]

[quote=special-K;9114088]

Originally Posted by GOPAPA

Sounds like he took it to a worthless shop. That's what Harley Davidson dealerships do. They send owners of anything but the current engines design away. All those owners are given no choice but to find a competent Harley shop. It doesn't mean the bike can't be fixed. It means that dealership can't fix it*

* I'm sure someone there could, but it's a business decision. They can make money off of every newer bike repair. Older stuff sometimes takes more to fix due to deterioration and harder to find parts.

Funny they didn't take the job @ what they quoted per hr. $100 and they said 3 hrs

[67 twins]

[quote=special-K;9114088]

Originally Posted by GOPAPA

Sounds like he took it to a worthless shop. That's what Harley Davidson dealerships do. They send owners of anything but the current engines design away. All those owners are given no choice but to find a competent Harley shop. It doesn't mean the bike can't be fixed. It means that dealership can't fix it*

* I'm sure someone there could, but it's a business decision. They can make money off of every newer bike repair. Older stuff sometimes takes more to fix due to deterioration and harder to find parts.

Not all Harley dealers are like that. My oldest brother is Harley mechanic at a dealer and he has worked on some seriously old machines.

[LONGHAIR]

[quote=67 twins;9114135]

Originally Posted by special-K

Not all Harley dealers are like that. My oldest brother is Harley mechanic at a dealer and he has worked on some seriously old machines.

That has been my experience. Pretty much any bike that is 2 generations of engine old, is "too old" for the dealers. They tell you to find an independent bike shop.
They won't even touch an Evo around here.
My kind of old is Knucklehead. If you show up at almost any bike shop with one of those, they all come out to see it. Of course, mine was hand built by me and I wouldn't let anyone touch it anyway.
That's another thing, custom. The dealers really don't want anything other than the way it was built in the mothership, but that's not really surprising, car dealers do that too.