If you are looking for a pleasurable experience, you will be disappointed. They are tough to work on and usually require a LOT of work. The magneto will be the absolute least of your problems. The biggest problem with them is that water intrusion in the gear case can cause, either from freeze damage or running with bad bearings and gears, the very last, aft, eighth inch of the gear case bullet to fracture and usually break completely off. This is the last little bit of gear case that has threads that retain the guts of the case; so if this happens, the gear case is junk. The water pump is also quite the tricky thing to reassemble and getting the carb off to clean is not the easiest thing to do, because the lower cowl can’t be removed unless you take the midsection apart. (You CAN get the carb off without removing the lower cowl but it’s just not super easy.) It has a neutral cable that frays at the end and is sometimes very difficult to get back into its tube, which you need to do during an impeller change, which WILL be needed. All that being said, that is a REALLY nice looking one and, when you finally get done flogging it and everything finally works right, they have a very good run quality, almost as good as OMC stuff.
Long live American manufacturing!
