Evinrude E-tech tiller

  • jayt
    Posts: 4
    July 20, 2012 at 9:13 pm #1239033

    I am in the market for a used 16-17 ft aluminum tiller boat with 50-60 hp motor, would the E-tech be a good choice if I will be doing some trolling or do I need to go with strictly a 4-stroke?

    Brian Hoffies
    Land of 10,000 taxes, potholes & the politically correct.
    Posts: 6843
    July 20, 2012 at 9:51 pm #1086231

    Welcome to In-Depth!

    Any motor will do the trick as long as you can go slow enough. These days all the brands are good, it’s your dealer who will make the difference.

    jayt
    Posts: 4
    July 20, 2012 at 10:37 pm #1086238

    Thanks I enjoy this wedsite,lots of good stuff.

    Mike W
    MN/Anoka/Ham lake
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    July 20, 2012 at 11:28 pm #1086247

    Welcome to the web site. There are much better choice for a tiller motor. E techs are known for fouling plugs when you run them for long periods of time. That was one of the many issues mine had. The tiller arm is not great either.

    I switched to a yamaha and am very happy. Much better tiller arm and the VTS button is fantastic for those slight adjustments to trolling speed. The motor trolls down to 2mph . For speeds slower than that I drop the trolling motor and run it against the main motor. This gives fantastic speed adjustment.

    Have seen that Mercury also has a very similar tiller arm to the Yamaha motor. Might be another option to look at.

    travp
    Blaine , Mn
    Posts: 401
    July 21, 2012 at 12:10 am #1086252

    Suzuki has a new tiller arm with RPM adjustment as well.

    ted-merdan
    Posts: 1036
    July 21, 2012 at 3:39 am #1086277

    Quote:

    Welcome to the web site. There are much better choice for a tiller motor. E techs are known for fouling plugs when you run them for long periods of time. That was one of the many issues mine had. The tiller arm is not great either.

    I switched to a yamaha and am very happy. Much better tiller arm and the VTS button is fantastic for those slight adjustments to trolling speed. The motor trolls down to 2mph . For speeds slower than that I drop the trolling motor and run it against the main motor. This gives fantastic speed adjustment.

    Have seen that Mercury also has a very similar tiller arm to the Yamaha motor. Might be another option to look at.

    This has definitely NOT been my experience. I have a 2010 150 E-TEC tiller and I troll all day long without an issue – put 8 hours on it yesterday and it purred all day – I have 234 hours on mine and I would venture that 70%+ are at trolling speeds. This is the start of my fourth season and have nothing but good things to say about the overall performance. A very few decibles louder than the four strokes at idle but I am personally not a fan of an outboard that sounds like an underpowered 4 cylinder car engine. Additionally the torque on these engines are outstanding and you combine that with the reduced weight and while the four strokes are struggling to get on plane I am already a spec on the horizon shooting a rooster tail. There are no bullet proof manufactures out there – a Yamaha F250 4stoke of mine blew a power head and here I thought that only happend to the ‘other’ motors. I ran the 250 4strokes since they first came to market – actually in 2005 I had the first one that was shipped into the US. I made th switch to Evinrude in 2008 and the 250 E-TEC HO was 6 miles an hour faster, dropped 8-12 seconds off my hole shot and weighed ~60# less.

    Now I still have a Yamaha F150 on my pontoon and it does a nice job there but in my opinion, you need the complete combination of performance on the smaller to mid sized tiller motors as they are usually underpowered on those boats when you consider a console model of the same boat is usually rated for 50 or more HP.

    Again, this is my personal opinion but based on a lot of experience.

    Good luck with your informed choice.

    -ted

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