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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | Keep what you've got and run it till you can get a whole new rig. Why spend money for a different motor if the old one will still run OK? You won't recover the $$$ when you dump the boat. But if the old motor is not trustworthy then I'd upgrade to a new one in a heartbeat. Used? Mmmm.. I don't think so.
If you fish a ton getting a new motor would save you thousands in gas, but if you are just a normal weekend warrior you'd need a lot of years to make it pay. Are you going to keep the old boat that long?
I went from a 1991 Johnson 150 FastStrike on a 1991 deep V aluminum to a 2010 E-TEC 200HO on glass and the 200 uses about .6 the gas the old 150 did. I didn't upgrade for the fuel reason though, I just didn't trust the entire old rig any more for long vacations. But I was shocked at how much better the new motors run. No comparison at all. The old motors are just plain garbage compared to the new ones. It's not the old motors weren't good in their day, they were! The new ones are just that much better. |
