Re: Stuck hydraulic for assisted tilt in 40hp

[DAN ANDERSON]

I second everything Don just said. New boating customers don’t want to mix oil at all. They just want to pull up to a fuel pump and put in 3,6, or 25 gallons of gas and do no figuring of mixing ratios. If they have been drinking they wouldn’t get it right anyway! The docks just want to put straight fuel in everything now that most engines are oil injected or four strokes. Nothing is their fault!
As far as the new DFI motors you can’t default the oil injected systems. The oil is only injected to the rod wells. Re circulation systems take care of the test. The system detects if the oil injection injector is pumping. Motor is shut down to limp mode (idle) if a problem is detected. All computer driven. Idling is not a problem with no oil as Don stated.
The VRO pump is a very good fuel pump. The problems it had were actually from its inability to determine water or fuel from oil in the onboard tank. It’s interesting that in both cases when asked the customer will admit that the engine had started to use less oil than before! Not sure why that does register with the owner, but it doesn’t. If you had a truck that was burning a quart of oil a month and it just stopped all of the sudden wouldn’t you wonder why? Two strokes are suppose to burn oil and you had to know this since you had always put oil in it before. Lack of common sense. But you have to make things idiot proof now days. I do know that the Merc & Yamaha systems were a lot more complicated and difficult to unhook. The VRO system got blamed for a lot of ills it didn’t create. One cylinder failures are not Oil system failures!

Dan in TN