[jergofish]

Putershark, thanks for the insight. It is frustrating though that I brought my engine in for its 20 hour check which as I understand it is basically change the oil and filter. Check fluid level in lower unit, tighten up all mounting bolts, plug in diagnostic unit, and perform a visual inspection and get charged $189 for what at the most is 45 minutes of work. At the same time, the oil fill cap was left off and when the engine was tilted up, a quart of oil spilled all over the front of the engine and into the engine well. I was leaving for Mexico in eight hours and wasn't able to do much of a clean up. It's still grimy around the area and I'll have to take it to a spray car wash when I get home.

As an alternative to bringing in the motor every 100 hours and enduring a $189 bill, (I'll put on 50-75 hours every month MINIMUM) I'll save my oil and filter receipts.

After the first ten hours I did some fuel and mph tests and wrote them down. WOT was 45mph @ 5900.

I did not get to run the boat under the same conditions after the 20 hour, and towed it directly to Mexico. the boat was tested in cool fresh water, (65 degrees), in a low humidity (35%) climate, air temperatures in the high 80's, low 90's and on California gas which I understand has a good portion of ethanol.

When run in Mexico in salt water, high humidity (75%), high air temps, 90's, high water temps, 85 degrees, on straight 87 octane unleaded, the boat is only capable of 5000 RPM WOT, 36 mph, and is using slightly more gasoline per RPMs. In addition, for the first two weeks it would load up when first started and idling for any period of time until it warmed up. The loading up has stopped but the performance is still way down.

When I return to NorCal I'll have an almost empty tank. I'll scrub the bottom and refuel using NorCal gasoline, and then run the same tests I did after ten hours. If I don't get close or better numbers than I did after ten hours I'm going to visit the dealer and we'll have a long discussion on why I lost 900 RPM after the 20 hour check and mess I had to deal with. Two other Suzuki dealers are in my area and although neither sells Triumphs I will check them out if I'm not satisfied with my dealer's response. It's just that I hate having to two places and would rather do one stop shopping, boat and motor maintenance.