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| And I appreciate your advice and participation. Something about the price of oil and filters and what they actually do for you got stuck in my craw as I was trying to find an alternative filter # for this engine.
So I gotta pick your brain a little. Why go CHEAP cheap on the thing that carries you to and from work.....which has provided everything which you see around you.....including that 115, but put a brand name filter on the outboard motor?
Not questioning you or your decision. Just sort of thinking out loud. I don't want you to think I'm up in your grill about this.
We all make interesting decisions. I've smoked, chewed, drank, drove home hammered, etc., enough times in the last 15 years that my 9 lives should be almost up by now. Not to mention the other stupid activities I did while involved with those activities. Yet, despite all the hazards and toxins there, I've just told myself I won't put a Green Bay walleye in my livewell? Where's the logic in that? Done having kids, basically heallthy otherwise, etc. But I pick GB 'eyes to enforce my flip-flopping health ideal.
I was googling up numbers for oil filters and got on some site and guys were cutting apart oil filters analyzing the foam screen separator thingies inside them, and talking parts per million this, and Fram that, and going on and on about things I'd never thought about. All of a sudden I'm feeling guilty about my engine, like I'm not a good parent and I should give the thing up for adoption to someone who will actually take good care of it.
And then I realized that its a frickin' motor! A neglectful friend went 6 years without changing oil in his 115. Will my engine notice the difference if I run cheap oil and filter? Will I tell the difference if I run a genuine Yamaha filter with the Japanese writing on it and Yamalube next time? Would a motor you went through six calendars between changing its oil run differently the day after you put synthetic in it and a Yamaha filter?
These are rhetorical questions I do not intend to get or need an answer to. Its just my protest to all the fancy crap people try to sell us, when none of it likely makes any difference at all to the thing its being applied to. Dismounting from atop my soap box now.
Thanks again for the filter numbers.
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