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Originally Posted by Gene genie
explain chris, not sure if your being sarchastic? 
would you expect this one to last 60,000, but they normaly go bang before then? |
Depends. Depends on everything. I would like to think I use the engine properly when on a decent ride out, dunno whether anyone who was on the ecosse run wants to comment on that, but I don't think I am too much of a poofter with it.
Mine's downgeared, and not standard. So cruising rpm is like 7000, not the best thing for it. Really blows stuffing out of exhausts quickly too...
But I run it on an ester synthetic oil, and it gets serviced well. So I reckon the 2 will balance out, and give me 60k, unless it goes pop for some other reason before that.
So yeah, 60k and I find a lower mileage bottom end and build that up for it. Maybe keep the old one as a spare or flog it. Dunno.