Looking for some advice

Yeah, over a period of years and years. But to a new boater, who just put his life savings down on a boat, it makes for a long winter thinking about how your engine will blow up in the spring because the oil wasn't changed in the fall. Been there.

 

Yeah, talking engine life, years but not years and years, just years. I highly doubt anyone would think that not changing your oil in the fall one year would destroy an engine. I think your being a bit dramatic new boater or not. JMO.

 

I guess it depends on on OCD you are. Like I said, couldn't change the oil one year and I was bothered by it all winter. But frankly, in all my years on the boating interweb, I have yet to hear of an engine crapped out because they changed the oil in the spring instead of the fall. The change itself I think is what is normally neglected.