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Let's consider a 25 horsepower Johnson
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It is a detuned 35 at full throttle. It is producing less than two thirds of the power at full throttle
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So you can't run a 35 at more than half throttle, right
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I have a 35 and I run it at full throttle all the time
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And it is, it is a 1976 and still running fine. There's like, there's a proven case right there of running an engine white
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I mean, 1976, that's 24. And let's go ahead and call it 2024 today
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So you're talking about 48 years at wide open throttle. Like it's, you don't blow power heads because you're running wide open throttle
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You blow power heads because they run lean, meaning you're not getting your oil mixture, right
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You're running out of oil. Uh, and that's causing two other issues
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You're overheating the engine. So when you overheat it, it does all kinds of things
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Like it warps the metal, it warps valves. It wore like the valve covers, plastic parts, all that stuff
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Like you've got big problems when you overheat an engine to, you know, a
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certain temperature or for extended period of time, those are the things
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that's going to blow a power head, not running at wide open throttle. If you've got a five horsepower engine and you run it wide open
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throttle all the time, they run forever. Again, the problem with the little engines is people don't service them
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They've got this little engine. It sits on the tender and then it lives in the water all the time
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It doesn't get an impeller for 20 years. They running poor fuel in it, never checking the oil and those kinds of things
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That's what ends up killing them, especially like carburetors and stuff like that
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That's what the problem with all the little engines is, is you get a little engine most of the time, oh, it won't run
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Well, that's because it hasn't run in six months. It's been living in the water and the carburetor is now trashed
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And that's why it won't run because it's lack of use. So that's kind of my two cents or my little rant on the running wide open
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throttle, and it's kind of a horsepower thing where these little engines are
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you don't have the ability to run in the lower engines, but then when we talk
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about higher horsepower, like, you know, 90s, one 15s, one 50s and up 300, 600s
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The, the idea that these people can run wide open throttle all the time, like
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bass boats, those they're running as much wide open throttle as they can
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But at the same time, if they got trolling motors, they're running wide open throttle to the spot, and then they're putting in the trolling motor
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And then they're, they're doing their thing right there. Turn it on the engine, pulling the trolling motor and then wide
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open throttle to the next spot. They're the, basically the ones that you will find that have the high
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RPM and wide open throttle, but by and large, the rest of the recreational
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world, they don't have the ability to run wide open throttle all the time
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So I guess maybe there should be a horsepower disclaimer in there
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Um, Sawyer's dad says carburetor. What is this? 1975. Um, that's kind of what I was thinking
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There's just tons of there's, because we've got a lot of questions about older engines lately
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There's been a lot of OHS 66 is HPDI questions, but carbureted
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four stroke question, a lot of 20, 25 year old engines, but yeah, 1975
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Um, just kind of what it is. You know, there's a lot of older engines out there, so we're going to talk
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