What do you think would be the average engine life (hours) to expect out of a 2017 Yamaha 250 sho
With normal use and maintenance?
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What do you think would be the average engine life (hours) to expect out of a 2017 Yamaha 250 sho
With normal use and maintenance?
200 hours before you need a new powerhead from making oil. :stirthepot:
In all seriousness, it could be 200 it could be 2000. So many variables and some people seem to get a good one, others seem to get not so good ones. Doesn't matter the brand really, I would say Honda or Suzuki will probably last the longest, but they aren't as fast/powerful.
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Originally Posted by AustinV
Just like a truck...hope it was built tue-thur
I'm 78, just bought a new 200HP Suzuki 4 stroke, it has a 6 year warranty. With mine, I hope I outlast it, if you're young, you should outlast your Yammie.
If you are running the ever living piss out of it like it seems a lot of guys do on here.. 500 hours before most hi rev engines need some work with regular maintenance. Back home a lot of OB, yamaha, honda etc will see well over 2000 before needing anything substantial done.
Idk if because of the age you can get an extended warranty.
Had an inshore guide that ran Yamaha 4 strokes tell me he didn’t start looking for a new motor until he had 3,500 hours on it.
It'll take me 50 more years to get 2000 hrs on my 2013 SHO. My SHO might outlast the next owner too.....:laugh:
Couple thousand plus hours if not more.
If proper maintenance is done along with running good products in the motor I would expect 2000 hours or more. I have personally put 1000 hours on a motor that most people had bad experiences with. That SHO has a good reputation and I could see it going way north of 1000.
Couple of pro fishermen/crabbers here ran their Suzuki DF140’s for 8000 hours ..... Suzuki bought the motors back off them to pull apart to see what they were like inside.
Found no issues and they were reassembled, serviced and sold on to a recreational fisher and still going strong.
I have a 140, and it has been the absolute best running engine I’ve ever owned. Had it for 5 years now, and other then oil/plugs and fuel filter changes, it’s run like a champ with not even a single hiccup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moonlighter
Had 800 hours on my Zulu when I sold it last fall. Changed oil and plugs.
I put exactly 200 hours on my 2014 250 SHO before both heads cracked. Yamaha replaced with a new powerhead under warranty. I ran the new powerhead an additional 191 hours (2 seasons) and I am back to oil leaking out of the bottom of the powerhead again (Thank god I extended my warranty!). Its in the shop now being looked over and should know what happened next week. BTW I am strict on maintenance and do everything that is outlined by Yamaha. I only use Yamaha parts and oil/grease. I monitor my engine on my Lowrance via a Yamaha interface. I always warm up engine to at least 120 degrees before slowly taking off and have never had an alarm of any kind. I do not abuse the engine and if anything I baby it too much. My lakes are small so I can get across a lake in 15 minutes. This engine does not make oil either, never had that problem. FWIW there are a lot of cracked heads on Yamaha SHO's as of late. ..
All year Sho’s? 200? 225? 250?Quote:
Originally Posted by bgibson
Yes all years! I have reached out to dealers around the country and they are seeing it. The 200 - 250 hp are the same except for ECU.
Man it honestly seems with outboards that it is a crap shoot.
There's still motors running from the 70s and 80s. Most people trade out their boats before the motor blows up.
Sure you hear a tale occasionally of motors going out, but it's just not that common. In most cases you can examine the operator and how they treat the engine to figure the cause.
You'll read about a lot more bass fisherman blowing motors in a few hundred hours then you will with the salt water crowd. Why you ask, because saltwater crowd will start motor and let it run all day and not flog the piss out of it. Average Joe bass fisherman launches boat, starts motor and idles 50 yards past no wake buoy then goes ballz out for a few miles, chops throttle and kills motor before boat even stops to hurry and get on the trolling motor.
Nailed it...pinging the rev limiter the entire way. It's a little green fish..it ain't going anywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by ThomasD
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Originally Posted by badbaggerHD
These boys around here have a lot of lower unit issues, especially the prop shafts. But these guys are rough. And can break an anvil.
I know the EPA and the engine manufacturers are trying to save the world, but the old tech 2 strokes could be fixed and fixed and fixed at a reasonable price as long as the block didn't have too big of a hole in it. Now we throw the newer 4 stokes away and replace them. Just asking, but why can't a 4 stoke be designed to be reasonably repaired instead of discarded?
Still 13,995 on one of the saltwater pages I frequent.
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25" Shaft though John.Quote:
Originally Posted by n2ratfishin
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Originally Posted by ChampioNman
Just thought I'd show that the salt water gang doesn't count a motor down and out because of 1000 hours.
I'm not sure how the salt water crew is on maintenance? I know when I posted how much the three year service was at the dealer on my 1154S others thought I was crazy for spending that kind of money on routine stuff. Most bass guys I know fix stuff when it breaks vs spending big bucks on the routine stuff that keeps em going.
I like to go down and watch the salt water guys while Im in Florida. I will say most seem to give their rigs a good flushing and they tend to wash every inch of their boat and gear before putting it up.
The saltwater guys also do long runs in the cleaner burning RPM range, not WOT. They have to deal with the damage saltwater does to the motor too. How we run them is definitely a factor.
Studies show that most bass boat owners may run 10% of their time at WOT. I know the past two outboards I owned showed less than 10 hours at WOT when the 100 hour service was completed.