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Southcentral Outboards We sell new and used outboard motor and marine parts on our website southcentraloutboards.com We offer remanufactured and rebuilt parts as well as used parts.

Southcentral Outboards sells new and used outboard and other marine parts out of Altamont, IL. Everything we sell is guaranteed, warrantied, and ready to use.

Smokey runs quality control on the parts side. She's napped on more carburetors than most mechanics have rebuilt.If your...
10/21/2026

Smokey runs quality control on the parts side. She's napped on more carburetors than most mechanics have rebuilt.

If your motor spent the fall coughing and dying at idle, that's a carb full of varnish — not a motor giving up. We've got shelves of used OEM carbs, pulled, cleaned, and checked. Smokey has yet to approve a leaky float bowl.

Visit our website at southcentraloutboards.com and see what fits.

Last-minute Halloween costumes for your boat:Ghost. Throw the tarp over it. Done. It's been one since July.Zombie. It di...
10/19/2026

Last-minute Halloween costumes for your boat:

Ghost. Throw the tarp over it. Done. It's been one since July.
Zombie. It died, but you keep making it walk.
Mummy. Duct tape. You're halfway there already.
Skeleton. The parts motor behind the shed. No effort required.
Scariest of all: "Boat That Runs." Nobody will recognize it.

We can help with that last one. Lower units, powerheads, trim units, and shelves of used OEM parts.

Southcentral Outboards | Altamont, IL

Outboard yearbook, Class of This Season:Most Likely to Quit at the Ramp: the carburetors.Most Likely to Get Blamed: the ...
10/17/2026

Outboard yearbook, Class of This Season:

Most Likely to Quit at the Ramp: the carburetors.
Most Likely to Get Blamed: the stator.
Class Clown: the kill switch lanyard nobody clipped.
Best Looking: the prop, back in May.
Most Changed: the prop, by August.
Biggest Flirt: the trim, up and down all day and going nowhere.
Most Likely to Succeed: a lower unit that's been pressure tested, inspected, and resealed.

That last one we can help with. Most of the others too.

Southcentral Outboards | Altamont, IL

Her: There's a box on the porch. It's heavy.Him: Don't open it.Her: It says Southcentral Outboards.Him: It's a surprise....
10/16/2026

Her: There's a box on the porch. It's heavy.
Him: Don't open it.
Her: It says Southcentral Outboards.
Him: It's a surprise.
Her: For me?
Him: For us.
Her: Is it for the boat?
Him: The boat is for us.

We don't take sides. We just send the lower unit. Pressure tested, inspected, and resealed.

The conversation is on you.

Southcentral Outboards | Altamont, IL

You might have a parts motor if:The wasp nest under the cowl has seniority.You've said "it only needs" and then listed m...
10/14/2026

You might have a parts motor if:

The wasp nest under the cowl has seniority.
You've said "it only needs" and then listed more than four things.
The registration sticker is from a year you had hair.
A tree is involved.
You bought it for the trailer.

Good news. One man's parts motor is another man's winter project. And for the parts yours can't donate, we've got powerheads, lower units, trim units, and shelves of used OEM.

Call with your model and serial number. See post above.

Southcentral Outboards | Altamont, IL

The five stages of outboard grief:Denial. "It's probably just bad gas."Anger. Words your kids now know.Bargaining. "Just...
10/12/2026

The five stages of outboard grief:

Denial. "It's probably just bad gas."
Anger. Words your kids now know.
Bargaining. "Just get me back to the ramp and I'll change your gear l**e. I swear this time."
Depression. Paddling home with a cooler lid.
Acceptance. Calling us.

Most folks do all five on the water. In the off-season you can skip straight to number five, in a warm garage, with dry socks.

Lower units, powerheads, trim units, and a building full of used OEM parts.

Southcentral Outboards | Altamont, IL

You didn't hit anything. The skeg simply chose a different life.A cracked or broken gearcase housing doesn't mean the wh...
10/10/2026

You didn't hit anything. The skeg simply chose a different life.

A cracked or broken gearcase housing doesn't mean the whole lower unit is done. We sell empty gearcase housings — cleaned, inspected for cracks, threads checked — so you can move your good gears, shafts, and bearings into a case that isn't leaking. Or skip the surgery and grab a complete lower unit, pressure tested with fresh seals and a warranty.

Send us the serial and a photo of the damage. We'll tell you which road is cheaper.

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Southcentral Outboards | Altamont, IL

A customer once told us his powerhead showed up "encased in foam like it was going to the moon."That's on purpose. A low...
10/09/2026

A customer once told us his powerhead showed up "encased in foam like it was going to the moon."

That's on purpose. A lower unit that survived twenty years on the water shouldn't die in a truck. Everything we ship is packed by people who'd be personally offended if it got dented — and it goes out fast, because you've got a weekend on the line.

Thousands of used OEM outboard and sterndrive parts, tested, warrantied, and packed like they matter. Tell us what you need.

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Southcentral Outboards | Altamont, IL

Not everybody runs a 300. Some of us run a 25 on a jon boat and consider that a lifestyle.We take care of the little mot...
10/07/2026

Not everybody runs a 300. Some of us run a 25 on a jon boat and consider that a lifestyle.

We take care of the little motors too — tiller handles, carbs, lower units, props, recoil starters, cowlings, ignition — for the 9.9s and 25s and 40s that have been quietly getting people to the good spot for thirty years. Used OEM, cleaned, cross-referenced, warrantied.

When the dealer says "that motor's too old," send us the serial. Old is our shelf.

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Southcentral Outboards | Altamont, IL

Everybody on the internet says "tested." Here's ours.Every lower unit that comes through our shop gets pressure tested. ...
10/05/2026

Everybody on the internet says "tested." Here's ours.

Every lower unit that comes through our shop gets pressure tested. Gears get pulled and inspected for wear, pitting, and cracks. Shafts get checked straight. Seals get replaced, not looked at and hoped about. If it doesn't pass, it doesn't get the warranty sticker — it gets torn down for the parts that did.

That's why we can put a real warranty on a used part and sleep fine.

Lower units, sterndrive uppers, gearcases, powerheads, trim pumps, ignition — used OEM, inspected the way you'd inspect it if you had the bench.

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Southcentral Outboards | Altamont, IL

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14 N 2nd
Altamont, IL
62411

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 7am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 7am - 4:30pm
Thursday 7am - 4:30pm
Friday 7am - 4:30pm

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