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• Ho often to change engine oil?
  • How many miles would you put on your car in 50 hrs at 75%throttle?
    • I owned two cars with oil change computers
    • Andy, an over the road trucker who drives 12 hours a day isn't going to be changing his oil every week.
  • I have a 1986 Yanmar 44HP ...
  • I have a rebuilt 4-108 which runs
  • Over-maintenance seems like over-building to me. Both a waste of time and money.
  • I doubt they'd write 50 if they meant 100.
    • Volvo manual also says to torque the
      • That's nuts
      • Probably a mis-translation.
        • I agree...
  • On my boat once a year, usually at the end of the season
    • Not true...
      • A diesel suffers much more from non or infrequent use
  • Not all hours are created equally
  • HUH? Every 2 days?
    • Agreed...
      • sounds reasonable
        • I'm not so sure that's the answer. Just
          • Will do Steve. Need to take better photos first.
          • The rings may not...
  • OK OK... I changed my oil!
    • Oh no....
    • I don't change our annually.
      • Yup, me too, I look at it and smell it often, and change every couple years. Cheers, John