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What should I budget for annual maintenance costs?
DuaneIsing,
Who says that a Sailboat Auxilary Deisel Engine only "have a useful life of about 7 "? Who ever said that is nuts or doesn''t know the first thing about caring for Marine Deisels.
I sold a boat last year that had a 21 year old engine (1980 vintage). It was a Yanmar 2QM15 that had to have well over a 1000 hours and it was still going strong. Maintenance is all that is needed (Fresh oil & Clean Fuel Change impellers/zincs) , and if maintained they last upwards of 5-10,000 hours. I see boats with engines that are dozens of years old everywhere. The only ones that don''t last that long were not maintained properly.
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