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Originally Posted by Cal
depending how hard you beat on them
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That is about the long and short of it as Cal says. I have a 30 year old outboard that just last year keeled over and died.....I have no idea how many hours but in the nieghborhood of 50 hours a year tells me better then 1500 hrs. and certianly it was not as powerful as it was in its youth but it still ran strong. Two things I think help as others have said proper maitanence, and not having a boat that is under powered. If the boat isn't powered properly you going to work the engine harder....and believe me there are a lot of under powered boats out there........... a second boat I know of (my uncles) had easily over 1000 hours on it and after a new carb. was put on ran the best it ever had...............