Outboard Servicing

[petekd]

Does any of the Northern crowd know of anywhere I might get an outboard serviced in the vicinity of Donegal preferably? Its a 50HP Volvo Penta Outboard and I am fast discovering that there doesnt seem to be another of them in existence!!! It doesnt need anything serious doing to it or anything but I would like to have it checked over prior to the season kicking off in earnest.

[b0ogaloo]

Hi Pete

Only Volvo Agents I know of is Robert Craigs in Great Georges Street , Belfast

http://www.robertcraigandsons.co.uk/marine.htm

They are a tad expensive

Im up in Fahan on Saturday if you want me to leave it down for you. i'll be back in Fahan on Sat 15th April



Andy

[petekd]

Hi Andy, I was in touch with Robert Craigs when I was looking for shear pins, the only contact they had for parts on it was Emilssons in Sweden who wanted £170 stg + P&P for 5 Pins!! They wont handle servicing on the outboards at all. Got pins made by a precision engineer in Ballybofey instead for €15 each. All I want basically is for someone to just run their eye over it and make sure there are no major problems lurking. I will be selling the engine in a few months and replacing it with something a bit more common to be honest so hopefully avoid any further problems.

I was told by Craigs however that a lot of those Volvo outboards are kind of a Honda derivative whatever that means...

Thanks for the offer anyway Andy, appreciate it. .

[phenwick mist]

tonys marine in coleraine do all my stuff. good lad engine always 100%

http://www.tonysmarineservice.co.uk/

mark.

[x]

There's a crowd in Glenties do outboard servicing - mainly Yamaha but they'll tackle anything. Darned if I can remember what they're called but I think it's Campbell's Marine Services - 074 955 1491. Also try Inver Tool Hire 074 973 6198.

[phenwick mist]

motor marine also in burtenport.