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Originally Posted by TimT
Maintenance.
It's a crap shoot how the engines were maintained by prior owners..
I grew up around boats, and learned from my father (lifelong Boater) how critical regular maintenance is.
Though I'm currently boatless.. My last boat was a 21' Grady C/C with a Yamaha 200HP two stroke.
Aftermost uses when I got back to the dock, I'd tilt the engine up fit the clamshells, and fresh water flush the cooling system..
Every off season I would:
Change the plugs,
Change the impeller
Change the gear oil in the lower case.
Fog the engine before storage..
Full tank with Stabil.. so no condensate in the fuel..
So many boats are used hard and put away wet.
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This, maybe the previous owner didn’t bother to flush the engines after use, or change the anodes when they needed. Or maybe the head would have corroded anyway, but it took 17 years. The engines were not used a lot prior to my purchase, but I bought the boat from a guy from west palm beach that lived on Flagler and the boat was kept on a lift.
I’ve put 80 hours on the engines this year, so I imagine I’ll put 100-150 hours a year on the new engines. And believe me ill be flushing the engines after every use, I do now. And keeping up with the maintenance. I pretty much do everything now except changing the impellers, kind of hard to pull the lower units while it’s on a lift. But I’m going to look into that.