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Hello Board,
Just wondering if any of you have heard of this: A dear friend just showed me the guts of the THIRD of SIX larger Yamaha 4-strokes (200, 225, and 250hp) that he is currently having to perform a "spine transplant" on. Seems if you leave your 4-stroke in the fully-up position for any period of time (say, two days or more), without thoroughly, totally, anally flushing it with fresh water, the joint b/t the powerhead and mid-unit corrodes THROUGH. I'm not talking about abuse or neglect here; we here (in the Central Exumas, Bahamas) use our boats as PRIMARY transportation--it's not uncommon for us to put 300 hours a year on a boat. The engines he showed me had 1450, 1220, and even 680 hours on 'em! He said Yamaha is throwing their arms skyward and saying, "UHHH, IDONNNOW...., but here's yer list of MAJOR parts needed to fix it!"...
this has the potential to majorly suck.....
Just wondering if any of you have heard of this: A dear friend just showed me the guts of the THIRD of SIX larger Yamaha 4-strokes (200, 225, and 250hp) that he is currently having to perform a "spine transplant" on. Seems if you leave your 4-stroke in the fully-up position for any period of time (say, two days or more), without thoroughly, totally, anally flushing it with fresh water, the joint b/t the powerhead and mid-unit corrodes THROUGH. I'm not talking about abuse or neglect here; we here (in the Central Exumas, Bahamas) use our boats as PRIMARY transportation--it's not uncommon for us to put 300 hours a year on a boat. The engines he showed me had 1450, 1220, and even 680 hours on 'em! He said Yamaha is throwing their arms skyward and saying, "UHHH, IDONNNOW...., but here's yer list of MAJOR parts needed to fix it!"...
this has the potential to majorly suck.....
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