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Unread 04-23-2012, 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by spareparts View Post
the local boat taxi recently pulled their F150's off their boat at 6400 hours, it was written up in the Yamaha bulletin. I don't know what Yamaha said about which oil they were running, but I know for a fact it wasn't Yamaha oil. I think they've run Sierra 10W30 FWC in it.
I read that article too. Very impressive. even though they said the motors were always run at something like 1500 rpms. At that speed my 225 would probably last that long. Now the motors are on a Grady out in the Gulf somewhere. Like the Energizer bunny...Still going.
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