Engine hours

reneechris14

I drive a brown truck for a living my truck 3 years old 96000 miles and it's got 4850 hours three sets of tires and two sets of brakes this truck is probably only had about a third of its lifespan it's funny how boats get a 1000 hours and people think they got too many hours on them it's also weird when we have failure at 500 hours and 600 hours it's acceptable for things to be broke. I know we say boats are always like driving uphill but if you rode with me in this truck you would realize this truck probably takes more of a beating than my boat but then again I like my boat a lot more and I like this truck. I have also seen plenty of post where people have 2000 hours on their boat and it still runs strong. Thanks for reading break time's over got to go.

reneechris14

6.2 gm gasser  getting 6.4 mph
GVW 19000#  running about 14000# to and from the barn every day.

Ian

I also wondered about that in the past too figuring that 1000 hours really isn't a lot. Average 30MPH it's only 30000 miles on an engine. Sure, at higher revs but it's still not a lot. It does depend on how you care for it too.

MarkB

Problem is with a boat engine is it's at an average of 3000 to 3500 rpm for thousands of hours. Having said that there's a well known fishing captain on Michigan that is currently replacing an engine ... he pulled the plug on the old engine, it has 6560 hours on it!  So, I think part of it  is how well you treat and maintain your engine.

LaRea

Try driving the brown truck only 50 hours a year, in 30-minute spurts mostly at full throttle, and letting it sit in a marina the rest of the time.  See if it lasts 5000 hours (100 years) in that scenario!

reneechris14

I agree if we could drive our boats every day for an hour or so they would have a better life. We also get the boat all hot and bothered shut it of and leave it in a salt environment for week at a time. As I mentioned the truck is 3 years old and my 342 is twelve and has 322 hours. More boat and less work 

Handymans342

Your the man Al

reneechris14

Yup the more you use them the better they are. Stern drives in the Cummins, I want those in my 342,

LaRea

reneechris14 said:

I agree if we could drive our boats every day for an hour or so they would have a better life. 

The boats would have a better life, and so would we!

Stodge

Funny, I noticed my Colorado has an hour display in the info area.  Made me think the same thing, that the 750 hours on my engines is not "THAT" bad.  

Cableguy Greg

@reneechris14, my cable truck has 61K miles on it and 6200 hours, 4500 of which are idle hours. The engine has to be running for the PTO so the boom will work. It is a 2012 F450 with a V-10 motor.

Black_Diamond

What you want is the 9.0l twin turbo Mercury engine at 1,650hp. 

reneechris14

@Black_Diamond was thinking the merc racing 1150 so I can stay on pump gas, with 2 of them in my 342 what pitch prop should I run. Lol

reneechris14