Chrysler Sailor 250 outboard? Anyone?

Anyone out there with any knowledge or experience with this outboard?
thanx in advance

seer

 

first off whats your question?
will admit some knowledge but haven't seen one in the last 10 years or so

 

Thanks Redtech,
sorry, been down in florida for a month working on a boat.
Anyway, I found one of these 250 sailors and was thinking of using it as a dinghy motor, but don't know anything about them. Appears to be well built, little used, and turns freely, tho havn't had a chance to fire it up yet.

What I was wondering was, is the motor worth messing with? Does it have inherent problems that would make it unreliable, or if in decent shape, can I expect to give some good years in service? Gathering from the weight of the thing (seems darned heavy for a ten horse motor chrysler at least put a lot of metal into the motor heheh

So, any information you can offer about the thing would be useful .

and thanks.

seer

 

Chrysler outboards were very well made and served well for every person I knew who owned them.

 

You can't give them away in Oz, at least the old ones. Bottom of the heap reputation, make a good anchor kinda thing.

 

The big problem is that they have not been made for many years and parts may be getting scarce. I often see pairs of them for sale, one for "parts" motor. But, as I said, the ones I saw ran like sewing machines. Like any other machine, they need some care, clean fuel and minimum of punishing abuse. I know of at least one company that makes aftermarket electronics for them: www.rapair.com