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I pretty much agree with what’s already been said. My favorite in the HP range specified would be the 1961-63 10hp—-if you can find one that doesn’t have a worn out lower unit from running with water in it. The 1974-76 9.9 motors left a bad taste in my mouth that probably will never go away. 1977-up certainly are better, but like I said, I have a hard time getting over the lemons from ’74-76. The 9.5 in later years with vibration dampers is a good motor, but very hard for the novice to work on, if it needs to come out of the shell. Besides, BRP seems determined to get rid of them by obsoleting all the parts.
Yep, the 6hp up through the ’70’s is a darn good motor. They messed with that one too, in later years. But I don’t have any experience with those.