Save your fishing time and buy a Yamaha 4 stroke. Whatever you do for a living is probably more lucrative that dinking around for hours mechanicking on an old motor. You will be trading your fishing time for mechanic time - is it worth it, or is it worth borrowing the money, getting a reliable outboard that will last you for years and pay for itself over it's lifetime in gas and oil savings, and going fishing? We are only given so many hours on this earth - time spent fishing is not deducted, but time spent cussing an an old POS Johnson and raising your blood pressure is decucted double