engine hours
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engine hours
im looking at a cruiser that is for sale,it seems to be in decent shape but the engines have 3600 hours,they are crusader 454s,350 hp version,that seems like a lot of hours to me so im thinking that engine rebuilding will be needed in the near future.im looking for input from you guys who have cruisers,what do you think?
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not 1800 a side,3600 on each engine,i think i am going to pass on this one unless the price goes way down.if i can get it cheep enough i will run it this summer and rebuild them during the winter.
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Seems to me that motors in a big cruiser can get run just as hard as on a lighter performance boat - maybe more so. Even a leakdown / compression check and oil pressure doesn't necessarily tell you if the valvesprings are getting fatigued from all those hours. 3600 hours on a BBC is a LOT of hours. He must have been pretty meticulous on his maintenance to get that many and still have them running decently.
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im sorry but I have to say no way 3600 without a rebuild of somesort . cant be . whats the rest look like . that's a lot of boating