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I'm seriously thinking about switching over to a mud motor from my outboard. I have no idea on outboard values though. It's a 1992 Evinrude 40hp with controls in very good condition. Anybody know what price range I might be looking at getting for this?

Probably enough to pick up a used longtail. That a 16'?

I would guess around $600


and I was close....

http://www.nadaguides.com/Boats/1992/Ev ... ors-Values

No way, not even close. You have to pay that for a tiller 15 from the 70's and 80's, here at least. Would figure they're demand would be similar. NADA doesn't mean much with outboards.

Ha - it's Michigan, they're everywhere. Was going to say $500 before I saw Olly's link.

Flightstopper wrote:No way, not even close. You have to pay that for a tiller 15 from the 70's and 80's, here at least. Would figure they're demand would be similar. NADA doesn't mean much with outboards.

I sold a 80's 40hp a few years ago in MI for around $600. I had it listed for $800 on CL for months and it was just too much money.

DeadEye_Dan wrote:Ha - it's Michigan, they're everywhere. Was going to say $500 before I saw Olly's link.

Yup and in the NADA site I used my old ZIP from the UP.

Here's one from down here. Bet he gets close to asking but is a bit high.

http://victoriatx.craigslist.org/boa/4624297149.html

Flightstopper wrote:Here's one from down here. Bet he gets close to asking but is a bit high.

http://victoriatx.craigslist.org/boa/4624297149.html

Nuff needs to ship it to you then! Holy cow.

No joke. 15 is $500 minimum no matter condition.

Flightstopper wrote:No joke. 15 is $500 minimum no matter condition.

I have a 1950's 5hp I need to sale. Think you can get me 3 virgins and a cow for it?

Olly wrote:

Flightstopper wrote:No joke. 15 is $500 minimum no matter condition.

I have a 1950's 5hp I need to sale. Think you can get me 3 virgins and a cow for it?

Probably the cow easy, virgins are too hard to find

That's kinda what I was thinking, but I was hoping for a bit more.
What's a used 35 longtail go for?
Probably 2k or so?

NuffDaddy wrote:That's kinda what I was thinking, but I was hoping for a bit more.
What's a used 35 longtail go for?
Probably 2k or so?

2k is about the low average for a 23 LT here. Be curious what you see there. You might not even like the LT pushing the loads you do.



Wow, great choice of wording there...

Flightstopper wrote:

NuffDaddy wrote:That's kinda what I was thinking, but I was hoping for a bit more.
What's a used 35 longtail go for?
Probably 2k or so?

2k is about the low average for a 23 LT here. Be curious what you see there. You might not even like the LT pushing the loads you do.



Wow, great choice of wording there...

My buddy has a 23 on his 1648...same size boat as mine.
His does 14mph with 2 guys and a hunting load. Needs a new prop too.
I find myself at a 4mph idle through 1-2 foot of water than I do up on plane. And most of the time it's too rough on the big water so I have to run half throttle which is about 15mph anyway. So I can't really find to many negatives to switching to a longtail other than the cost.

I was kinda sold on it when I went with my buddy yesterday and we were in ankle deep water running wide open when I'm usually stuck pulling the boat 200 yards.

NuffDaddy wrote:

Flightstopper wrote:

NuffDaddy wrote:That's kinda what I was thinking, but I was hoping for a bit more.
What's a used 35 longtail go for?
Probably 2k or so?

2k is about the low average for a 23 LT here. Be curious what you see there. You might not even like the LT pushing the loads you do.



Wow, great choice of wording there...

My buddy has a 23 on his 1648...same size boat as mine.
His does 14mph with 2 guys and a hunting load. Needs a new prop too.
I find myself at a 4mph idle through 1-2 foot of water than I do up on plane. And most of the time it's too rough on the big water so I have to run half throttle which is about 15mph anyway. So I can't really find to many negatives to switching to a longtail other than the cost.

Jet! Lol

Flightstopper wrote:

NuffDaddy wrote:

Flightstopper wrote:

NuffDaddy wrote:That's kinda what I was thinking, but I was hoping for a bit more.
What's a used 35 longtail go for?
Probably 2k or so?

2k is about the low average for a 23 LT here. Be curious what you see there. You might not even like the LT pushing the loads you do.



Wow, great choice of wording there...

My buddy has a 23 on his 1648...same size boat as mine.
His does 14mph with 2 guys and a hunting load. Needs a new prop too.
I find myself at a 4mph idle through 1-2 foot of water than I do up on plane. And most of the time it's too rough on the big water so I have to run half throttle which is about 15mph anyway. So I can't really find to many negatives to switching to a longtail other than the cost.

Jet! Lol

If there wasn't so many weed beds around here I would. But I wouldn't get far in most places with a jet.

I have a hell of of time getting through some with an outboard.

NuffDaddy wrote:

Flightstopper wrote:

NuffDaddy wrote:

Flightstopper wrote:

NuffDaddy wrote:That's kinda what I was thinking, but I was hoping for a bit more.
What's a used 35 longtail go for?
Probably 2k or so?

2k is about the low average for a 23 LT here. Be curious what you see there. You might not even like the LT pushing the loads you do.



Wow, great choice of wording there...

My buddy has a 23 on his 1648...same size boat as mine.
His does 14mph with 2 guys and a hunting load. Needs a new prop too.
I find myself at a 4mph idle through 1-2 foot of water than I do up on plane. And most of the time it's too rough on the big water so I have to run half throttle which is about 15mph anyway. So I can't really find to many negatives to switching to a longtail other than the cost.

Jet! Lol

If there wasn't so many weed beds around here I would. But I wouldn't get far in most places with a jet.

Yeah that's no good.

NuffDaddy wrote:That's kinda what I was thinking, but I was hoping for a bit more.
What's a used 35 longtail go for?
Probably 2k or so?

I bought a 27hp long tail in MI for $1200 I had to drive down to Kzoo to get it though.

But seriously Nuff get a jackplate.

Olly wrote:But seriously Nuff get a jackplate.

I've thought about that too. But how much higher am I really going to get the motor and still be able to be on plane?
If I stuck with an outboard I'd have to have it so that the center of the prop would be level with the bottom of the boat when running WOT so if I hit a rock just under the surface I don't loose a lower unit.

NuffDaddy wrote:

Olly wrote:But seriously Nuff get a jackplate.

I've thought about that too. But how much higher am I really going to get the motor and still be able to be on plane?
If I stuck with an outboard I'd have to have it so that the center of the prop would be level with the bottom of the boat when running WOT so if I hit a rock just under the surface I don't loose a lower unit.

I had that 40hp on a jackplate and the top of the prop was even with the bottom of the boat and it worked great. I will see if I can find some old pictures.

Olly wrote:

NuffDaddy wrote:

Olly wrote:But seriously Nuff get a jackplate.

I've thought about that too. But how much higher am I really going to get the motor and still be able to be on plane?
If I stuck with an outboard I'd have to have it so that the center of the prop would be level with the bottom of the boat when running WOT so if I hit a rock just under the surface I don't loose a lower unit.

I had that 40hp on a jackplate and the top of the prop was even with the bottom of the boat and it worked great. I will see if I can find some old pictures.

That's only getting me up about 2" higher than I am right now. My motor is a hydrolic tilt/trim so if I hit something stuff gets ripped off.

With the tilt/trim add anything to the value, or not really?

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That isn't a bad idea. It would help in the shallows to go a bit faster, but I still don't think it would let me do what I want to do in the shallow rocky stuff.

Or maybe I should just pucker up and buy a damn airboat.

NuffDaddy wrote:

Olly wrote:

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That isn't a bad idea. It would help in the shallows to go a bit faster, but I still don't think it would let me do what I want to do in the shallow rocky stuff.

Push pole.