rnli evinrude 70hp

hadd · 13 December 2009, 16:43

Hi, can anyone tell me are the rnli evinrude 70hp engines any good

spartacus · 13 December 2009, 17:16

There are few for sale from Bill Higham ranging in price from £2,300 to £2,800, depending on the year of manufacture. Difficult to tell the life they've had and the exact number of hours unless this can be checked against the service histroy. Suffice to say - when they were with the RNLI they would have been meticiously maintained.

hadd · 13 December 2009, 17:53

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Originally Posted by spartacus

There are few for sale from Bill Higham ranging in price from £2,300 to £2,800, depending on the year of manufacture. Difficult to tell the life they've had and the exact number of hours unless this can be checked against the service histroy. Suffice to say - when they were with the RNLI they would have been meticiously maintained.

thanks, I just bought new boat trailer and engine of bill higham, the engine is a 2001 and looks in good nik and seems to run fine, it looks like its been well maintained cheers

chewy · 13 December 2009, 18:00

We never had any trouble with the Evinrudes, not bad engines.

Did you have to wait to have a gearbox fitted?

hadd · 13 December 2009, 18:22

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Originally Posted by chewy

We never had any trouble with the Evinrudes, not bad engines.

Did you have to wait to have a gearbox fitted?

I had to wait about 5 week for the package i think the engine are already made up, i went down and pick my own engine from is unit, as im only 2 mile away from is place cheers

chewy · 13 December 2009, 18:24

When I spoke to him the Evinrudes didn't have gearboxes fitted. He reckoned the RNLI had removed them?

m chappelow · 13 December 2009, 18:26

even though it may be ex rnli and had some hard usage, dont forget that it may also have not had very much useage , it will have been run every week for excercise or maintanence ,but some engines can have very light usage ,,not all are driven over rocks and go out every day in the teeth of a raging storm ,,,,,,and im not getting at you phil {CHEWY ]you took great care of her when she was at your station ,,lol,,,,,,just been looking through our relife boats service records and some years its been launched in anger couple of dozen times whilst other years perhaps just 6 times and they normaly only keep the 70,s for about 2 years .

hadd · 13 December 2009, 18:37

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Originally Posted by chewy

When I spoke to him the Evinrudes didn't have gearboxes fitted. He reckoned the RNLI had removed them?

he had quite few at is unit they all had gearboxes , i just pick one that looked in good nik

hadd · 13 December 2009, 18:59

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Originally Posted by m chappelow

even though it may be ex rnli and had some hard usage, dont forget that it may also have not had very much useage , it will have been run every week for excercise or maintanence ,but some engines can have very light usage ,,not all are driven over rocks and go out every day in the teeth of a raging storm ,,,,,,and im not getting at you phil {CHEWY ]you took great care of her when she was at your station ,,lol,,,,,,just been looking through our relife boats service records and some years its been launched in anger couple of dozen times whilst other years perhaps just 6 times and they normaly only keep the 70,s for about 2 years .

Hi m chappelow just a quik one, could you tell me were i can find the serial no on the engine as the little tab on the back is missing cheers

m chappelow · 13 December 2009, 19:08

off hand no, but it could be on a core plug ,is there any stenciling on the leg ,wont give you the engine no but it might get you the id no, should also give you the hp. yes i know its a 70 , lol,,,if you get the id no you may still be able to get info from rnli,,,,,not saying it is but it could be from another source ex contract ,eg ex coast guard or something ,, just seems that you say its a 2001 model rnli normally keep them 2 years / 4 years at the most it could have been but whats it been doing for the last number of years were nearley in 2010,

ollyit · 14 December 2009, 10:30

The evinrude 70 I had on the sr5 I sold recently in comparison to my 60 was very noticeable, good unit and easy to work on - hard to put my finger on exactly, more top end and torquey'r

Pete7 · 14 December 2009, 18:03

Superb little engines which have changed little over the decades because they got it right the first time round. Mine ran at about 4 gallons an hour on a Ribtec 535.

Chewy might be able to enlighten us to the changes the RNLI make to water proof them. Mine was spotless inside and a credit to who ever had maintained it in the past.

Pete

chewy · 14 December 2009, 18:08

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Originally Posted by Pete7

Chewy might be able to enlighten us to the changes the RNLI make to water proof them. Mine was spotless inside and a credit to who ever had maintained it in the past.

Pete

Any inversion proofing will have been removed before sale to the public, it featured a letter box style flap inside an alloy cover in front of the carbs and mercury switches to stop the engine if it went over.
Rinsed off and sprayed with WD40 after every use is the only thing that help prevent corrosion under the hood.

On a recent thread people said not to use WD40, how is the wiring etc on yours?

Pete7 · 17 December 2009, 17:55

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Originally Posted by chewy

Any inversion proofing will have been removed before sale to the public, it featured a letter box style flap inside an alloy cover in front of the carbs and mercury switches to stop the engine if it went over.
Rinsed off and sprayed with WD40 after every use is the only thing that help prevent corrosion under the hood.

On a recent thread people said not to use WD40, how is the wiring etc on yours?

Never had a problem with the wiring, although tended to use Quicksilver rather than WD40.

Pete