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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seahorse" data-source="post: 519518" data-attributes="member: 35919">They were still good motors up until the Ficht junk came out. So long as its got carburetors and its got good compression its a good motor. I ran a 1997 Ocean Runner for years with no issues, I only sold it because I found a boat I liked better it it helped me get top dollar for that boat when I sold it. I now run a 1990 115 as my saltwater motor on an 18ft Starcraft. Best $400 I ever spent back then. (It was 3 years old when i bought it at an estate sale on a junk glass boat that soon got cut up and run through a chipper my neighbor had rented one weekend. We sat around drinking tequila cutting up chunks of a water logged Glastron and throwing them into the chipper and watching it turn it into what looked like feathers. We started out swapping the motor over with the intention of taking the boat out the next morning but ended up too hung and covered in fiberglass working on the second bottle by the time the sun came up.Most of the old OMC motors will run pretty much forever if you don't do anything to it to kill it. Keep the water pump impeller fresh, keep the carbs clean, and don't over rev or overheat it and you'll likely die with it.</blockquote>