2000 Merc EFI

[fishinwrench]

51 minutes ago, Dutch said:

I was not aware of Mercury having that problem.  I’ve never had to do that except to the Johnrudes that I had.

Mercury V6's were designed with a synthetic nylon oil pump drive gear for some unknown reason.  The smaller 2-3-4 cylinder Mercs have a metal or brass drive gear that never fails.  The nylon gears began failing immediately, but the designers at Mercury marine refused to ever improve upon it. 

Johnson/Evinrude VRO pump diaphragms went through a period of failure when alcohol started to be added to fuel.   They promptly redesigned the diaphragms to withstand alcohol exposure and dubbed the system "VRO2" and it remains trouble-free to this day.....BUT nobody has forgotten the short period when original VRO systems were failing right & left.   VRO2 is the most reliable oil metering system ever to be used in 2-stroke outboards.   If one DOES fail it fails by adding too much oil....not by starving the engine of oil.   

At least OMC did something positive. 

Mercury just let their customers deal with the pain, with no apologies or rectification whatsoever.  Douchebags.

[grizwilson]

16 hours ago, Dutch said:

Take it down to Branson West and have one of Kelly’s guys find out what’s wrong.

Thanks, I am going to try a couple things, but may end up going the delete route rather than a large repair bill on a 35 year old champion with a 21 year old outboard...... don't think it will hurt my resale bad....and this nice weather needs to end so I can be without it a few days. 

[grizwilson]

On 12/12/2021 at 3:54 AM, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

Buy the block off kit, there is a reason Merc offers it....Wrench talked me over the phone how to do it.  3 years in and im running great....mixing oil is so easy, people make a big deal out of it for no reason 

 

do you or @fishinwrench have a part number handy?

[fishinwrench]

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[grizwilson]

31 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

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Thanks Glen, you are an asset to this site.

[fishinwrench]

4 hours ago, grizwilson said:

Thanks Glen, you are an asset to this site.

I like how you dodged the word filter there. 👍 

We all knew what you meant. 😂

[grizwilson]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

I like how you dodged the word filter there. 👍 

We all knew what you meant. 😂

meant to make asset two words just slipped up🤣

[fishinwrench]

Asshat 😉

[grizwilson]

On a brighter note, messed with it a bit this afternoon the on engine tank was 1/2 to 3/4" down, did have the 3 gal a bit low on a rough run a while back may have got a suck of air??? Hooked up hose, and properly bled tank on motor.  Off to Stockton in the morning, with forecast wind should know??? any one up to a tow 🥶 Will know more tomorrow.  

[grizwilson]

Thanks for the helps everyone, especially @fishinwrench ran some wind on stockton no beeps so going to test my luck and keep running the O/I, but definitely keeping the link for the part to disable and an eye on the oil.  THANKS 

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