four stroke outboard

[final flight]

fishing freind of mine poised this question to me and i'm clueless, what is concidered low hours and what is concidered high hours on the new four stokes, he's looking at a baha cruseir with twin 130's (honda) they have around 900 hours on them.is it too soon to say they will run for 2000,3000,4000 hours before rebuilds are required. any and all imput is appreciated. GOD bless rollie

[Capt Vince Pierleoni]

I have a Honda 130 myself, which I have on my river boat. There is a reason why we are seeing more and more of them on the water. I would say there are many being used on the Niagara with at least that many hours on them. Just like any motor, you can have a compression test done, and I would if I was buying the boat. Oil changes are critical, and I have had good luck running the synthetic blend. Keep an eye on lower unit oil for water and change regularly. They like to run alot, like a beagle!

[final flight]

commpression is 210-225 in all cylinders on both motors, but how many hours is alot???

[ERABBIT]

I found this on the web ,

http://www.outboardrepairs.com/topics/013469.html