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This is a picture of the Yammie T9.9 kicker I reconditioned. It isn't going to match the Suzuki so that is a problem... I had been looking for one on CL for many months when someone asked me to give them an estimate to fix up their sailboat to sell it, as one of the bow cleats had fallen off etc. It needed a lot of work but had this nice kicker on the back, which I coveted. He had paid $4500 for the boat, but I ended up trading $1500 worth of tile work to buy the boat, then took the kicker off the boat and traded the boat for a nice Catalina 22 sailboat that needed very little work. Sometimes bartering can be a wonderful thing.

The motor had just had nearly $600 of work done on it by a Yamaha dealer's mechanic. Despite this, it didn't run when the owner got it back. They are fussy, and like to have the autochoke defeated by holding your hand over the intake when they are cranked. Also they do better starting if the throttle is goosed 3 to 5 times before engaging the starter.

No water was coming out of the tell-tale and tlhe impeller was trashed. When I took the lower unit off to change it one of the bolts was seized and broke in half, which took oodles of PB Blaster, heat, cussing etc to get out. The bits of the impeller were lying in the water intake. I also had to re-clean the carburetor that was cleaned by the mechanic. Yikes.