Bought a brand new Hangkai 12 HP Long shaft outboard on Ebay for $840 . Got it today, looks real good. Spare parts and a 6 gallon gas tank with hose. Bought it for a backup motor on my 25 Panga, will store it in a plastic tote and put bubble wrap all around it and a blanket underneath. My motor goes dead I'll just put the 70 pound motor on the back and it'll push me about 5 knots.
I did my research , word is the Chinese motors aren't greased well at the factory and you have to grease throughout the motor, throttle connections, shaft, and grease the prop spline. 10 hour break in , use straight gas with no ethanol, maybe use 40-1 instead of 50-1 .
It's a direct copy of a Tohatsu , the manual they give you looks just like the manual I have for my Tohatsu 3.5HP.
Looked very closely at the inside of this engine before I bought it and saw it was extremely easy to fix it /replace filters, carbs.
Saw a video on You tube and a guy had a 12HP Hangkai , he had 212 hours on the motor and said the motor ran perfect. There was some corrosion, the paint came off and he had to prime the whole thing again and put a new coat of paint on. Was fine after that. Guy was new to outboards and didn't grease the vulnerable areas.
I'll get an inexpenisve tach/hour gauge , connect it to the spark plug wire and put it on the tiller arm.
If anything, this will end up being a cheap motor I can practice working on outboards with. So much simpler than my Evinrude Etec!
Why are they allowed to import Brand New 2 strokes into the US ? Thought they were banned ?
I did my research , word is the Chinese motors aren't greased well at the factory and you have to grease throughout the motor, throttle connections, shaft, and grease the prop spline. 10 hour break in , use straight gas with no ethanol, maybe use 40-1 instead of 50-1 .
It's a direct copy of a Tohatsu , the manual they give you looks just like the manual I have for my Tohatsu 3.5HP.
Looked very closely at the inside of this engine before I bought it and saw it was extremely easy to fix it /replace filters, carbs.
Saw a video on You tube and a guy had a 12HP Hangkai , he had 212 hours on the motor and said the motor ran perfect. There was some corrosion, the paint came off and he had to prime the whole thing again and put a new coat of paint on. Was fine after that. Guy was new to outboards and didn't grease the vulnerable areas.
I'll get an inexpenisve tach/hour gauge , connect it to the spark plug wire and put it on the tiller arm.
If anything, this will end up being a cheap motor I can practice working on outboards with. So much simpler than my Evinrude Etec!
Why are they allowed to import Brand New 2 strokes into the US ? Thought they were banned ?
Last edited:
