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Richard Casady

On Sat, 17 May 2008 07:21:53 -0400, wrote:

You should plan on replacing the impeller every other season regardless of
anything else, including whether the motor was even used or not. It's not a hard
job, but it's an important bit of maintenance.

10 000 miles in a car, at 50 MPH is the same two hundred hours that is
a lot for most small boats. The family ride reached 170 000 miles with
a set of spark plugs that it didn't need, at 100 000 miles. Then it
developed low compression on one cylinder, and I figured the writing
was on the wall and had them put in a rebuilt motor with a warrenty.

Used up a motor with lots of miles, but the water pump never caused
trouble.

Casady