This is a BIG surprise for me. We've had many issues, a blown engine, then rebuild it. The floor rotted then it is replaced. New carpet. Rebuild on the TM. Now carbs are acting plugged up.
So getting back to her excitement. I had convinced her, we needed a new outboard, especially make a change to Mercury repower. She agreed. Then she's looking at boats. So she found a 10 year newer Champion 180 with a 2002 Optimax 150.
What's a man to do. Wife says get a newer boat. So we are. Who fights a wife that wants no more to do with our present boat and wants to get a different boat, not new, but 10 years newer than our boat. Ready to go, receipts show recent new power head, carbs checked/cleaned, needs a battery, been setting four years in a climate controlled storage location.
Going to check out running it on muffs, check transom, and all the other features...
So it's bye-bye to this ProCraft...
Unless we find something wrong. Then I'm eating Crow.