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Old 04-18-2014, 01:14 AM   #34 (permalink)
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I have a 2 cylinder 700cc Briggs on my mower that makes 24 HP but the 570cc 2 cylinder on my old seadoo made 65hp and weighs less. The seadoo is reliable with traditional gas, it was the fuel lines and ethonal that caused a problem. The factory switched lines on newer versions and you can on the older versions as well but it destroyed probably 1000s of pistons in the process. My last 1 cylinder 16hp Briggs motor wasn't all that reliable itself, sending a rod through the block after 8 years of light use (maybe 20-30 hours a year) . A seadoo with out the fuel issue will go more hours then that normally but I think so would a Briggs normally.
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