Useful websites for helping you service your four stroke small outboard engine

Below are some useful videos and websites I have found about servicing our small four stroke outboard engine.

It is my intention to do the following on my outboard - for the very first time I might add - so I will be approaching this with some trepidation - and fear of what the Missus will say if I cock it up! This isn't necessarily the order I will do things in by the way:

• change the engine oil
• change the gearbox oil
• check and if necessary replace the impeller
• check and if necessary replace the spark plug, little squirt of oil into engine cylinder block
• dismantle, clean and reassemble the carburettor (yikes, a tad ambitious I'm feeling)
• check fuel hoses
• grease all moving pieces - tilt bolt, transom screw lock threads, engine swivel points, gear shift handle parts, 
• exterior clean
• remove prop, check prop (cracks, chips, distortion)  and shear pin and replace if necessary.
• check pull cord for fraying
• check anti corrosion anodes

My last service cost  around £70 plus labour of £50 - which felt rather expensive to me. I wasn't convinced that everything I was told had been done, had in fact been done!

Anyway, if you take an outboard to sea I guess its good to at least know some of the basics in trying to maintain or trouble shoot any issues that might arise.

Below is the useful stuff I found:

https://www.tohatsu.com/int/tech_info/oil_change.html

https://www.pbo.co.uk/expert-advice/how-to-service-a-2-stroke-outboard-engine-24833

https://www.pbo.co.uk/expert-advice/how-to-recover-an-immersed-4-stroke-and-other-maintenance-tips-from-the-honda-institute-60143

https://www.pbo.co.uk/expert-advice/clean-outboard-motor-carburettor-step-step-58809

https://www.followingseas.media/blog/2017/1/30/fixing-that-pesky-outboard

Video wise - I looked at lots but these I particularly found helpful

I guess its time to pucker up courage and give it a go. The impeller change and carb clean are the two bits worrying me!