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| Thanks to you both. I turned up the Fram # on an internet search, and also found the 303 from K&N. I'll print that out and take it into Ghetto Zone or Napa and see what they recommend and prolly will just get out a dart and give it a toss in the end. Ghetto Zone had a hard time doing much with the 5GH.....number. They found one that matched, but I wasn't overly confident it was a match since they had to search for it by part number, not by engine.
The cost of a Yammy filter and recommended lube not break the bank, but what are you gaining for the money? Yamaha filter and Yamalube....what's the cost there? $60? Price difference is a tankful of gas. (at least it was before petrol went nutz) Which I guess isn't much, or might be alot, depending on how much fuel you burn annually, but again, what do you gain? Can anyone honestly say they ran a Fram filter and Resolute oil and their cylinder walls were eaten away in a month? Doubt it.
Like I said in my original post the "cheap" Fram PH8A that goes on my Silverado seems to have kept it limping along for close to 200k miles. With zero engine/oil issues. The way I understand it, Honda's 130hp was the engine in some of the Honda Civics. Huh, an outboard engine and a car engine....in one.
Honestly, is there a cleaner environment for oil and internal combustion than an outboard motor? Sure you might drag it down some dusty backroads, but while its running, you'll never pull cleaner air through an engine or have less dirt and grime present. Yeah, sure, lack of use, breakdown of fluids, blah, blah. FILTER is the key word, which implies dirt and grime....of which there is next to none.
I'm just wondering how much we overthink this stuff, in terms of high dollar replacement stuff like filters. When stuff breaks down on outboards, seems pretty often its intake or timing related, or some random bearing, or an injector or a leaky seal, or something totally unrelated to lubrication and cylinder pressure/seals/rings.
Anyway, thanks again. Doin' my annual lube job on Sunday. Fun task. Thank God for GoJo.
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