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    Ca. 1984 when the Dollar was strong against the Dmark I bought a Belgian made Mercury 35, it was shipped to Houston. OMC also apparently had a factory in Belgium, in Austria/Germany I own Belgian made Evinrude 6 (1981, converted to 7.5 hp) and 25 (1978, converted to 35 hp) motors, and a 1980 Belgian made Johnson 35. Does anyone know where the factory was, and if spare parts were made here or were shipped to Europe? I have some German language OMC service manuals which I bought on Ebay.de just to learn the terminology (powerpack, exhaust tuner, charge coil, sensor coil, etc). German language OMC parts manuals seem not to have existed. It's quite hard now to find an Evinrude dealer (I've never seen an E-Tec motor anywhere in Germany, and we're on the Baltic every summer), Mercury and Yamaha dominate. The collapse of OMC in 2000 apparently killed the dealer network nearly completely.

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    The OMC assembly factory was located in Brugge, Belguim..
    There was not a special partbook for engines built there,
    (except the Euro 4 HP)..
    Same motors as built over in the USA..

    I do not know about Mercury´s set up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lars Strom View Post
    The OMC assembly factory was located in Brugge, Belguim..
    There was not a special partbook for engines built there,
    (except the Euro 4 HP)..
    Same motors as built over in the USA..

    I do not know about Mercury´s set up.

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    Yes, I know him. There was lots of F3 drivers from Scandinavia back then...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lars Strom View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lars Strom View Post
    The OMC assembly factory was located in Brugge, Belguim..
    There was not a special partbook for engines built there,
    (except the Euro 4 HP)..
    Same motors as built over in the USA..

    I do not know about Mercury´s set up.
    Thanks. Jim Nerstrom wrote me later that all OMC parts were made in the U.S., the motors with the "B" stamp were assembled in Bruge.

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    i have 15inch mid and matching gearcase, made in belguim.. did have the powerhead however that went on another boat..

    the interesting thing is this gearcase isnt a 2-1 ratio it would be more like 1.85-1 etc.. its the only one i have ever seen and the thing was MINT when i got it.. original paint hadnt been touched.. ( i took paint off and added nose cone)

    do you know if they made a different ratio for motors from there?

    i cant get model number in the morning...

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    Quote Originally Posted by 850cc racer View Post
    i have 15inch mid and matching gearcase, made in belguim.. did have the powerhead however that went on another boat..

    the interesting thing is this gearcase isnt a 2-1 ratio it would be more like 1.85-1 etc.. its the only one i have ever seen and the thing was MINT when i got it.. original paint hadnt been touched.. ( i took paint off and added nose cone)

    do you know if they made a different ratio for motors from there?

    i cant get model number in the morning...

    The 3 cyl. 75, first made in 1975 had a shortshaft (15" model) gear ratio 15/28, or 1.87 to 1. The longshaft (club foot) model had a gear ratio of 12/29, or 2.25 to 1. It was the 140 hp V-4 that had a gear ratio of 2 to 1.

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    so does that mean the gears of a 140 v4 fit into the nitro (55hp case)?

    thats what has been fitted to my nitro?

    cheers for the info.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 850cc racer View Post
    so does that mean the gears of a 140 v4 fit into the nitro (55hp case)?

    thats what has been fitted to my nitro?

    cheers for the info.
    No, far from it. You can check the Evinrude parts list on the internet, my recollection is that the long shaft 70 and the 140 had the same gearcase but
    not the same gearing. The 140 V-4 is basically hopeless, old fashioned and was in its day far outclassed by the Mercury 150XS.

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