were talking small outboards. Over the last 30 years I have had a 5hp
Johnson, a 9.9 rude, 4hp rude, 2hp Suzuki. There was only 2 throttle
positions, troll and WOT. I still use 3 of the motors, the old 5HP was a
victim of a relative not adding any oil to the gas. All work fine. Now 4
stroke I know nothing about but seems they would be more susceptible to
damage at WOT because of the valve train.

Trainfan1 sounds like my area. I run up a lot of steams and small lakes in
the western Adirondacks. Got a Camp in the Pieseco area.

"Lloyd Sumpter" wrote in message
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Hi,

I just gave up trying to find a used 9.9 4-stroke and bought a Shiny
New Merc
9.9 4-stroke. It's LIGHT!

Anyway, I've always run older 2-strokes and often ran them WOT for hrs
at a
time. Now that I have a new one, I'm more concerned. Are outboards (esp.
4-strokes) designed to run WOT full-time? I know inboards are not, but
what
about outboards?

The manual doesn't say: just describes break-in period. They say for
the
first 10 hrs do not run WOT for more than 5 minutes. After that...?

Lloyd Sumpter
"Skeeder" Mirrocraft 12