I am looking for a place to take my 1985 25 hp motor in the LaCrosse/Onalaska/Holmen area. I need a new recoil put on it and was just wondering where some of you take your motors to get them serviced. Kind of new to the area and am just looking for some references. Thanks in advance.
I have used Holiday Marine on Clinton Street and very pleased with the service and cost. They got me in and out in no time. They are right down the road from Bob’s Bait shop. They are probably one of the best in this area.
On a side note-A new recoil would be pretty easy to do yourself, I would think 
Another option would be to unbolt the recoil assembly and ship it to Twin City Outboard here in the Cities. They would either fix it and ship it back or ship you a used or rebuilt recoil. Or maybe they have one you could just buy.
-J.
Thanks for the advice guys. About 2 months ago I took the recoil off and sent it with a buddy for his uncle to fix. Well he put a used recoil in it which only cost me $10, but it is not working out at all. Do you know if you can just buy that recoil and put it in yourself or do you need some special tools or anything. Thanks for the advice, and if it only costs a few bucks. I will let someone else deal with it. Thanks again. 
From all my past experience recoils aren’t hard to work on yourself. Take the bolts out that keeps the recoil assembly on the upper motor housing. On the bottom or the top theres a bolt or nut that you can take out and the pulley that the starter rope and recoil spring wraps around then will come out by pulling on it with your hand. Take the end of the recoil spring and unwrap it from the pully. At the end of the spring there will be a pin that holds the spring onto the pully. Some springs you have to take the pin out and some you don’t. On alot of spings on one end theres a bent end that wraps around the pin. When I tell anybody that wants too work on a motor themselves just remember how you took it apart, its easy to forget when a persons too confident. Get a new spring from the dealer by using your i.d. numbers and make of motor. Put the new spring back on the retaining pin and wrap it around the pully. Wipe clean the surfaces that have grease on them and regrease. This is fairly important.. Take the recoil rope and wrap it around the pully, give the pully two extra turns when bolted back in place with the bolt that holds it that you took out when you took the pully off. The reason you give the pully two extra turns is so there is tension on the rope so that when the handle returns to the housing it returns in all the way. After this is done put the rope through the hole of the housing and put on the handle. Remember the rope goes through the small end and out the big end of the handle, then tie a big knot or a knot around a pin that was there, depends on what motor and how old it is, but so that it still fits in the handle. I’ve tied on ropes through the big end and had to untie and retie the right way, oh well! Try doing it yourself because if you can’t do it the marina will be able too, its just a few parts and a few minutes.
Mossydan,Thanks for the detailed information. I am pulling it into the garage tonight and going to try it myself. If I mess it up to bad, it can always go to the shop. Gives me something to do at night anyway and another reason to have a few Thanks for the info again 
Waterswat, good luck fixing that…
Does everything you do revolve around ? Just wondering. 
BM, life is always less complicated when you have some to help solve the problem. 
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