Routine maintenance of your dinghy’s little outboard motor is a relatively easy operation. It is above all essential if you want your machine to last a long time...and to avoid breakdowns.
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Published on 16/12/2016
By
Emmanuel van Deth
Issue:
143
Published:
Sep.
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Oct.
2015
Maintaining your outboard once a year is the minimum. The recurrent problem with dinghy engines is that the engine does not run enough. During long passages, or stopovers in harbors, corrosion has time to set in and seize up the moving parts. There is a risk of breakages and breakdowns within a period which is finally quite short: a new motor which is little used and never maintained can be fit for the scrap yard in less than five years. The salt is to blame; it obstructs the cooling circuit, jams the transmission elements, the bolts and all the parts which should…
