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Location: Kodiak, AK | This question gets asked alot and it's always, "it depends." It all depends on how the motor was maintained, operated and luck. You can have a motor blow with 100 hrs on it, or a motor go into the thousands. I have 250 on my 09 motor, so that's more than half of the motor you're looking at from six years earlier. Let's just meet in the middle and say we both had 300 hrs...which is the "older" or more used motor? There's saltwater guys that run four strokes into the thousands of hours and there's bass tx guys that blow two or three motors a year.
Check compression, leak down, shaft runout, mount bracket, update logs (if there are any) and run it from a cold start as well as a hot start and see what you get. If all of that checks out, I'd not have any issues buying it. And in all honesty, it could last you 20 years or it could blow up in a week....again, it "all depends." But 388 isn't tons of time for most average users. |
