Used 2008 Yamaha F150 150 HP Outboard — 100 Hours, Mainly Freshwater

About this engine

Every used-outboard shopper knows the rule: buy the hours, not the birthday. This 2008 Yamaha F150 is the listing that proves it — the original 2.7-liter F150, the engine that defined the modern 150 class, showing just 100 hours with mainly freshwater use. Engines of this vintage usually carry four-figure hour meters; this one has lived the life of a motor a decade younger.

The platform needs no introduction to Yamaha people: a 2,670cc DOHC 16-valve inline-four with multi-point EFI, a 2.00:1 gearcase, 35-amp charging and a 467-pound dry weight on a 20-inch shaft. It is the combination that powered a generation of bay boats, flats boats and family runabouts, and built a parts and knowledge base that keeps these engines economical to own today.

This example is complete: controls and gauges are included, the propeller is fitted, and the gallery includes two under-cowling powerhead close-ups — fuel rails, ECU and starter all on show — alongside the stand shots. That is the kind of transparency we like to sell with.

Context matters on a 2008 engine, so here is the context the hour meter provides: 100 hours over this engine's life is the usage pattern of a second boat, a lake house motor, a hull that spent its years on a trailer under cover — not the 100-hours-a-season workout most F150s of this age have absorbed. Mainly freshwater use compounds the advantage: cooling passages, fasteners and the bracket age in dog years in salt water and in something closer to real years in fresh.

The F150 platform itself needs no defense. It was the best-selling 150 of its era for a reason — strong, simple, economical, and supported everywhere. What this listing adds to the platform is the two things you cannot retrofit onto a tired example: low hours and included rigging.

At 22.5% below our researched market for a low-hour freshwater F150 with rigging, this is repower value that newer-model listings cannot touch. If your hull needs honest 150 power without new-engine pricing, WhatsApp us.

Included with this engine

• Controls
• Gauges

Good to know

Mainly freshwater use (per seller).