Evenrude and Johnson were part of the OMC group. It was totally unexpected when I first found out they had stopped production.

A neighbor asked me to have a look at one of the last 25hp engines they produced. It was so high tech with fuel injection and so many things. I told him there was provision to plug a scanner into the system. I also told him there really was nothing I could do for him. Without a service manual especially. A really bad ideal to use that motor in salt water. The salty atmosphere would probably get the electronics.

Perhaps even more complex than a car engine as to electronics. It was good on fuel quiet and powerful. The cost to repair the electrical issue was very expensive at a service place that had sold them new.

To this day I do not know why they stopped production. They had brand loyalty and outboards where becoming expensive new by then. Where these older ones like I have tend to just have things like coil failures because of age. Compression seems to remain really good on the majority of them as well. OMC also sold a lot of lawn boy two stroke lawn mowers over the years. They were produced in a small Ontario, Canada town.