Re: 35hp evinrudes
I don't think I am "smarter than the average bear," but have spent enough time in the corporate environment to know what goes on in a great many companies. That doesn't mean that all of them do this sort of thing and it doesn't even mean that BRP are bad folks. Corporate legal departments are "risk adverse" and influence operational, financial, logistical, yada, yada, yada, decisions all of the time. Its just a fact of business life.
These sorts of things always come down to some rational decision making. For example, I am pretty hardcore about using PFDs all of the time. I don't do this just because the Coast Guard or some other agency promotes their use. I wear them all of the time, because I read a lot and know what the stats indicate, with the point being that I react to demonstrated results.
The same is true of the oil issue. I researched the matter, talked to a bunch of very experienced people and made a rational decision that has proven, through extensive use, to be a good decision for me. I almost wish I had a reason to tear one of my Bigtwin powerheads apart, just so I could examine and photograph its "internals."
At any rate - to each his own, but I'm going to keep running mine as I have been.
PS: I have to add one thing - while I have tremendous respect for the knowlege of a lot of folks here, including a fella by the handle "JB," to suggest that a guy who has been a trained OMC mech for 35 years, has owned his authorized dealership for most of that time and who still works on the motors for a good portion of each day, doesn't know what he is talking about, is sort of silly. This man has pulled apart and reassembled more OMC outboard motors than any 50 of us here. There might be a couple of people around here with equal background and knowlege, but that's very fairly, about it.
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