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Originally Posted by Blue_Runner

I have an '04 model - same engine.

The first thing I'd question is whether or not it is really an '08 - can't remember but it seems like '06 or '07 might have been the last year for the carbed 2 stroke? Maybe not, but easy enough to look at the model number and find out.

Around 06 or 07 YAMAHA quit assigning engines a model year per say, and started making the year of the engine the year it was sold. So in theory you could have an engine that was built in 07, but called an 09 because it was a leftover.