Johnson Outboard Motor Serial Number Lookup

[Perpetuo Carlson]

YourJohnson outboard model number can usually be found on the nameplate located on the motor or the mounting bracket. The nameplate should contain a serial number and a model number which will identify the year and - depending on the nameplate type - certain details of that motor and help you obtain the correct handbook, parts and service literature.

Find the serial number or code number. It will be found on the nameplate located on the outboard itself, on the mounting bracket or on the silver core plug on top of the power head. The serial number is typically a mixture of letters and numbers or a series of letters alone.

Decode for an earlier model, if the INTRODUCES code is not fitting. From 1969 to 1980, the year is in the model number by year. For example, a 1976 outboard has a 76 in its model or serial number, such as xxxx76x.

To decode motors 1968 and earlier, go to the Bombardier website for your outboard's year. It is easiest to look up the horsepower and year online. Bombardier acquired OMC and the Johnson and Evinrude brands in 2001.

This supplement manual is intended to provide information that is

unique to 2001 SI models and changes that effect 2000 SS models. Information

and procedures not included in this manual can be found in the appropriate

2000 model year Johnson and

Evinrude Manuals.

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They started building inboard 2-cycle marine engines in 1903 in a barn behind the house, along with matching boats. By 1908, they were making V4, V6, V8, and V12 aircraft and marine engines. In 1910, they built the first U.S. monoplane to exhibit their aircraft engines. By 1912, their V-12 was making 180 hp, when disaster struck the factory. Torrential rain, followed by flooding and a direct hit from a tornado, wiped it all out, drawings, machinery, and everything else. The brothers relocated to South Bend, Indiana and then Waukegan, Illinois.

Starting in 1922, they designed and built Johnson Outboard Motors, a radical new, lightweight outboard made largely of aluminum. By the mid-1920s, they surpassed Evinrude in sales, and dominated the outboard racing scene.

In 1928, the brothers bought the Birmingham Automotive Company site in Peterborough, Ontario and established the Canadian Johnson Motor Company Ltd.[2] By 1931 they produced cedar strip hulls at their Canadian facility.[3] The Peterborough factory was at the time 30,000 square feet in extent and had 17 employees. It was an assembly plant for American-produced parts.[3]

OMC filed for bankruptcy on 22 December 2000. It has been owned since 2001 by the Canadian firm Bombardier Recreational Products. Bombardier stopped selling outboards under the Johnson brand after 2007, and moved all sales entirely to Evinrude Outboard Motors until they were discontinued in June 2020. Bombardier supports existing Johnson outboard motors through servicing and parts. Evinrude also provides information about the year of manufacture for vintage Johnson motors, if the model number and serial number can be provided.

Plaintiff in this case has moved for a preliminary injunction enjoining the defendant from requiring certificates, issued to the purchasers of the defendant's outboard motors, to be redeemed exclusively for remote control throttle cables. In addition the plaintiff seeks to enjoin the defendant from disparaging the plaintiff's products in violation of the anti-trust laws. The plaintiff also moved, in a subsequent oral modification of its application, to require the defendant to cease issuing certificates to purchasers of at least one of the horsepower sizes of its 1971 model outboard engines now under the certificate program.

This action is a civil antitrust action brought by N. W. Controls, Inc. ("N. W.") against Outboard Marine Corporation ("O.M.C."). N.W. is a manufacturer of remote control cables and end fittings for outboard and stern drive boat engines and snowmobiles. O.M.C. is a diversified corporation which manufactures *700 and distributes lawn mowers, golf carts, industrial vehicles, chain saws, snowmobiles, and camping trailers in addition to outboard and stern drive boat motors and accessories, including remote control cables.

The plaintiff, N.W., has alleged violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 15 U.S.C. 1, Section 3 of the Robinson-Patman Act, 15 U.S.C. 13a, and Section 3 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 14. Suit has been brought pursuant to section 4 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 15, requesting treble damages for the violations. Both temporary and permanent injunctive relief have been requested pursuant to Section 16 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 26. This Court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 1337. The defendant, O.M.C., is a Delaware corporation. Venue is thus properly laid in this district under 28 U.S.C. 1391, 15 U.S.C. 15 and 15 U.S.C. 22.

Plaintiff alleges that O.M.C. has been violating Section 3 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 14, and Section 1 of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 15 U.S.C. 1, by "tying" the sale of its brand of outboard motor remote control throttle cables to the sale of its electric gear shift equipped outboard motors by means of a "certificate program."[1]

Outboard motors, such as those manufactured by the defendant, are mounted on a transom at the rear of small boats. The gear shift and throttle controls may be located on the engine itself and the operator may control the boat and motor seated at the rear of the boat next to the motor. Frequently, especially when outboard motors of higher horsepower are used, control operations, steering, gear shifting, and throttling, are performed from a position further forward in the boat using control cables. These control cables are elongated flexible conduits containing freely moving core wires and have specially configured end fittings which are attached to the appropriate fittings at the engine and at the control station.

In terms of the engine operation two control functions may be performed by means of remote control cables, gear shifting and throttle operation. Traditionally this was accomplished by running two control cables, one for the shift and one for the throttle, to a control box containing two levers, one for operating the gear shift and one for operating the throttle.

However, in the 1962 model year, which began in the fall of 1961, O.M.C. introduced the first outboard engine with electrically operated gear shift. For these engines the remote control operation of the shift is accomplished by means of an electric clutch and harness connected to electric push buttons or other controls. The throttle, however, is still operated by means of a remote control cable connected to a single lever on the control box. It is these models which are under the "certificate program" complained about in the present case. None of the defendant's models equipped with mechanical gear shifts are under the "certificate program."

The certificate program works rather simply. The purchaser of one of the defendant's Evinrude or Johnson outboard motors[2] equipped with an electric gear *701 shift receives, with the motor itself, a control box, an electric shift wiring harness, and a certificate which the purchaser may redeem for the proper length throttle control cable, the length being dependent upon the size of the boat. Upon presentation of the certificate the purchaser obtains a control cable without additional charge. The cost of the throttle control cable is thus included in the cost of the motor. Exhibits filed in this case indicate that over ninety percent of the certificates are redeemed for the "free" cables.[3]

These certificates are turned in by the dealer to O.M.C.'s Gale Products division for credit toward the purchase of cables to replenish the dealer's inventory. The dealer may not redeem these certificates for cash or for credit on any O.M.C. product except control cables.

On August 4, 1970 the plaintiff moved for a preliminary injunction to restrain the defendant from expanding the proportion of its models under the certificate program beyond the proportion covered in the 1970 model year. At a hearing held on September 10, 1970, the plaintiff learned for the first time that the defendant's 1971 models had already been released for sale. As a result of the elimination of the 33 horsepower size,[4] one not under the certificate program, the plaintiff alleged that the proportion of illegal interference had increased in the potential market for remote control cables.[5] Thus at a second hearing held on September 18, 1970, the plaintiff modified its requested relief to ask that the defendant be required to cease the use of the certificate program with respect to one horsepower size of its 1971 engines in order to maintain the status quo.

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