Makes me glad I don't have a YAMAHA.

[RidgeRunner]

I might have mentioned to Ferman and a few others that I had a friend twith a 200 Yamaha 4-stroke that flushed his motor religiously. Literally after every outing it is lift kept and the hose would go on it for 10 minutes while we cleaned up, it was the ritual. That motor developed a leak thru the block due to corrosion. He never did the thermostats and he had a significant buildup of corrosion in and around the t-stats.. Someone else mentioned that there are more sacrificial anodes in the block somewhere that need to be changed. I know that adds up $$$ and even worse to discover a four year old motor that has major corrosion issues, despite flushing.. He patched the holes, drilled one and tapped it to put in a pipe plug and he epoxied the other leak. I would like to think that it is not a common occurrence? BS I looked it up. My Mercs have never corroded like that, Johnrudes either. Just saying... Last couple outings I witnessed multiple Yamaha powered boats on the rope of shame. They all breakdown. My Mercs weakness is in the compressor setup. Lower units too, maybe self-inflicted there. I am hard on the Merc, so if there is going to be a stress related failure I intend to find it.. I'll behave now.

[captpete13]

The words Yamaha and corrosion go hand and hand. The Japanese must use some poor quality aluminum. Recycled beer cans or something. I have replaced dozens of those f225 midsections. It's such a problem Yamaha made a "kit" with all the necessary parts to do the job. I'm with you Vic. My Opti has never been flushed. Except once or twice after churning through some shallow muddy bottom and clogging up the powerhead. And still after changing t-stats the inside of the heads are as good as new.

[THEFERMANATOR]

We did the anodes in this thing earlier this year, and YIKES at the corrosion. He also religousky flushes, washes, sprays down with corrosion block, all of it. And it was all we could do to get those 4 zincs out of the heads. Then had to glass bead and clean up everything to put the new zincs in. Yamaha seems to be alot better than Suzuki. I always loved our zuke outboards, but the corrosion was bad. Even my Honda has quite a bit considering it was mostly a freshwater used engine.

[spareparts]

Honda is the worst, then zuke, then Yamaha. I can't say on the newer bombs, aint enough of them around here to know. Late 90's Johnrudes were pretty bad. Mercury had the best aluminum(XK360) till they closed the Stillwater plant. The newer stuff corodes pretty bad. Lots of offshore stuff(Merc, Yamaha, etc,,,) being used now. Like my FIL says, 'theres nothing in the world saltwater or a Marine can't F%#& up", he was in the Navy

[bradford]

I agree salt water will rust a sheet rock bucket, but it's pretty ridiculous the amount the new out boards go for and some of the problems some are having after being religious about maintainence.

[THEFERMANATOR]

Well here I am, a month later and I now own a YAMAHA outboard. With my health slipping here as of late, I guess you could say my fear has kicked in. The wife is getting a healthy bonus at work, so we decided to use it to upgrade our boat to one a bit nicer, and more family oriented. The other skiff we had had an older HONDA carbed engine on it that she couldn't ever manage to start, and she had trouble steering it at speed. So we figured while I can still do some stuff, we would use her bonus money to get a nicer boat and enjoy some time togetehr as a family, but to also get something she could run in the future. So we both settled on a 2011 SUNDANCE B20CCR skiff with a 90HP YAMAHA 90HP on it. The boat is equipped out pretty nicely, and only needs a few repairs to be up to par. It's only supposed to have 56 hours on it, but I'm going to get the software to verify it. It's fuel injected so all she has to do now is turn the key, it has hydraulic steering, so it should be easy enough to control at speed, also has a jack plate so I can pick the engine up to idle across the flats now instead of polling, already has a trolling motor, and lots of seating to keep momma happy. I have to pull the helm aprt and reseal it as it is leaking where the case halves bolt together, the engine needs serviced as it's been sitting a long time(water pump was pretty weak when I ran it), and add in a seat on the bow for me to be able to sit and fish.

Most would say I went and lost my mind, but I want to try and spend some time with my family while I'm still able to do so, and her bonus money was unexpected as we didn't think she would get it, so it was a win win for us.

I haven't taken any pics yet, but heres one from the ad.

[spareparts]