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Honda Outboard Motors - Online Shop/Service/Repair Manuals Download 2001-2014 Honda BF/BFP8D, BF/BFP9.9D Outboards Shop Manual This manual covers service and repair procedures for the Honda BF8D, BF9.9D, BFP8D, and BFP9.9D. I'm looking for a manual for a 4 HP 2-stroke Mercury outboard from 1981. It's Belgian made, two cylinder, serial # 9321742, although Mercury advised that I'd need to.
Don’t set off without your Owner's manual
There’s lots to find out about your new Honda outboard before you take it out on the water, and it’s all in the Owner’s manual that comes with it.
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Features, functions and basic maintenance procedures – it’s all very important stuff, so keep it in a safe place for reference and read it before you use the outboard for the first time.
Just in case you can’t find your Owner’s manual, or simply want to check something out, you can download the one for your engine online, quickly and easily.
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This is the best Honda Outboard Forum on the internet, it's yours! If you own a Honda Outboard. Are you looking for good advice about your Honda outboard engine problems and issues. All you need to know about your outboard engine issues and good advice from your fellow boaters.
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Honda Outboard Forum
So where do you start? There is a lot to know. I get asked regularly about what is the problem, and more importantly and how to fix a problem. I am a boat owner and that’s why I have published a dozen books to tell you all that you need to know about how to take care of your boats and systems.
My name is JOHN C PAYNE, and many of you may already have one of my books on marine electrical and electronics systems (The recently published Marine Electrical and Electronics Bible now in it’s 4th Edition) or perhaps one of the many other books on sailboats and yacht systems.
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I am not an armchair expert, but a qualified and practising marine electrician and engineer and a marine surveyor. I do this for a living. Let this website help you with the boat forum! Thousands of people input with answers to problems.
What is your outboard problem? If you know what the problem is then you are halfway towards finding the right solution. Why not choose from one of my many books to help you fix your problems. Here are some hot topics for the boat-forum:
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