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Originally Posted by sailaway21
Those Lister's were used for many years as lifeboat motors. They kind of died out in the seventies in that usage. They used to be all over the Orient as well powering small fishing boats. The word was that they'd run on about anything upwards of fermented straw! Never tested that theory myself. (g) Is your compression release working? They're pretty durable little motors. I'd imagine parts are still fairly readily available.
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I am ridding my Cat 27 of its Atomic 4 - pm if interested - its non running but it turns over... probably just a rebuild...otherwise do what I did - get a 2K outboard if you are in protected waters usually or just need a way in and out of the marina...