"Dan J.S." wrote in message
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"D-unit" wrote in message
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"Dan J.S." wrote in message
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The manual states to not run my Honda four stroke 90 HP (2001 model)
for
more than 5 minutes at full RPM. The throttle actually backs off
automatically after about 1 minute of full RPM action.

Anyone know if running at full RPM can really affect the engine? When I
have
14 people on my 25 foot Bennington pontoon boat, running on anything
but
full RPM is slow (below 13 MPH according to my GPS) (especially when I
go
against the current on the river that I am on).

The reason I bring this up is that when I use my Honda lawn mower to
mow
the
lawn, that thing runs at full RPM from start to finish, which is
sometimes
hours - the mower has been working like new for the last 3 years.





You really need a larger outboard. It will be temping to want to run
that 90 at WOT. I bought a bennington 20 ft with a Merc 50 a few years
back. After the first year, I traded up to a 90. I am SO MUCH happier
with the larger engine. and the 50 is much happier on the piece of crap
bass boat it wound up on.

My original thought was that we would just need a big enough engine to
put-put around the lake on... grin... I knew I had screwed up after
the first time out..


db




Yeah good idea. Only issue is that this bad boy has only 150 hours on it,
and runs like top. Plus, another Honda 130 or so is like $20k. If I am
going
to be buying a new engine, maybe I should just run this one hard, kill it,
and then get the 130.



Ouch..

Surely you could get something for the 90. I sold my 50 merc 2-stroke (50
hours)
for like $2500 and bought a brand new 90 merc 2 stroke (same hookups) for
something like 5K. That didn't hurt so bad. Im sure the 50 would be worn
out by
now. We realized that we liked to ski/tube/wakeboard once we got out on the
water
and the 50 had to work overtime to pull this off.. (no pun intended). The 90
will pull
just your ass out of the water no prob. Btw, we love our bennington 2050LX.
It
still looks brand new... wish I could say the same thing about the piece of
junk
trailer it came with... oh well. The boat is only rated for a 75 but after
a call to
Bennington, the tech said I could put a 90 on it and adjust the head count
down
by one. One more thing, If you do trade up on the engine, you might have
to
play around with different props to get it right. I went through 3 props
before
finding the "right one". The dealer who sold me the engine was very
helpfull
in exchanging props.

"Good luck with all that"

db