Huron Blue

Oh yes that's what I meant 200-225 same block... I'm the same way. Rebuilt the engine in my Truck... I have NEVER paid anybody to do any repair on anything I own with the only exception a front end alignment I don't have the equipment for that. Split my work trucks trans apart and rebuilt that.. never paid anybody to work on my cars. Bought / fixed up / and sold several boats always made money.

Isn't it true the 200HP and 250HP are the same block and stroke it's just the firmware bumps the HP 50HP??

Yea I literally just ordered the roller and the O ring. It was missing for sure. Yea the black nylon is over the steel rod but there was no roller or O ring holding it on so I'll get that fixed and check out it out. Not anytime soon 10" of snow here in Michigan tonight.. why I live here I'm not sure!! lol surprised you know this chit off the top of your head this is just from working on yours or did you work at OMC ? ha I appreciate you taking the time tho thx!

what is suppose to be on that post? I don't think I changed the ignition timing with that pc of rubber I put on that post I think that got it back to closer to how it was suppose to be but then again I'm not sure I will definitely check that out. I did not know about that arrow I will see how it lines up. I do recall looking in at the throttle plates and they seemed to touch / shut exactly all at the same time. thx opps didn't see this at first... that's great man thanks for that info. I found the roller cam part it's on order!!

Are you referring to this? I noticed a year or so ago a space between it and the throttle linkage. I slipped over a pc of rubber so there was no 'play'.

Great info thanks.. I have a tiny camera fits in the spark plug hole but it's kinda hard to see what your seeing. A little light would be perfect. what's a linc and sinc issue?? Mine does the wandering idle even in the water. It has the feel and sound of one cylinder cutting in and out. Might have to try and hook it to the software I think there's a test to shut off one cylinder at a time.

wow never heard of that alignment tool.. You are right about taking your time on that!! A couple of them I could still feel the edge so I wiggled them around a bit and bingo. I have a feeling if I didn't get that right I'd have a failure. OUCH!!! I only got the engine on the water for about 15 minutes weather turned to crap then after that next thing you know it's fall so it's waiting for spring now. I bought a NIB oil injector. Gonna pull that fuse like I mentioned and see if it triggers an alarm. Should have tried this before I blew $325 on the thing! But I don't want to have any doubts! Next question... ha .. I replaced the water pump. I swear it's not as good of a tell tale stream as I would expect. Is there a rubber grommet between the long pipe from the drive that goes up to the center section? I sort of forget .. as I recall my new pump came with several different parts for different applications perhaps I didn't get it right. I'm pulling the drive in the spring gonna do both shaft seals I saw a tiny bit of milky fluid when I drained in in the fall. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dja4FUjGhQC25zNVE2q_1BlHBwEdk4Ij/view?usp=sharing you can hear it going up and down in RPM at idle. Irritating. Guess I should clean the injectors maybe.

Okay that makes sense why you sent the ECU and injectors out for calibration. Mine are stock so I'm good there. I got a great deal on my 200 mostly because of the bad rap these motors had most people not knowing after Bombardier took over those problems were fixed. I could tell by the 1/2" injector bolt heads and stickers on the motor it was the upgraded version. When I rebuilt mine I bought the entire rebuild kit all 6 cylinders and and new bearings. The bearings all seemed fine but I changed all of them. I had a hell of a time getting out the lower but I won eventually. Put the new one in after putting the housing in the freezer.... new one dropped right in. I was also VERY careful to get the rod caps on the same way they came off. So I think I have a very good motor now that will last me years.

Wow 6 years on plugs!! I went 3 when it started running rough and no wonder they were wasted !!! center electrode was nothing but a pin and the gap was twice what it should be or more. aka way over due. Maybe my 2000 has a hotter spark who knows. I've heard some guys say they change them twice a season. That seems crazy but no way could mine go 6 years. I have a 75 gallon tank which gets filled completely full before the boat goes in storage semi inside storage. I'm in Michigan so the few months it sits it's cold which doesn't make gas go nasty like sitting in heat. Been doing that 25 years never an issue with bad gas. I agree on the batteries I have two big marine batteries on a switch which gets turned off whenever the boat isn't in use. Boat can sit all winter and will fire right up. Kinda wonder then if my iffy idle might be a semi dirty injector. Maybe I should run my tank down to 1/8 tank or so then throw in some injector cleaner?? You mentioned you sent your ECU and injectors out for service what exactly did they do? Calibrate more accurate than stock?? You mentioned they had issues that led to engine failure?? what like too lean?? Thanks BTW

Sorry I forgot I ask you think before. I've been on several forms asking so far nobody has an answer. But yes the locator pic was gone in that failed cylinder come to think of it!... so I bet your right that might have been it. Although the ring was stuck with carbon in that piston and no others so perhaps one failure led to another. Either way I think your correct the failure wasn't an oil injection problem. Anyway just to serve my own curiosity I now know the top left fuse is the oil injector next spring when I get it fire up on the muffs I'm gonna pull that fuse just for 15 seconds or so and see if in the buzzer goes off. If it doesn't I guess I have my answer. I bet it doesn't. Have you notice with your 225 an idle surging issue?? It's not a problem really just sort of anoying.. it goes up and down a couple hundred rpm like it can't quite figure out what low idle speed to be. Funny thing is I change the plugs [ indexed and all ] and it seemed to be fixed now after the rebuild it's doing it again. I'm wondering if I don't have one or two indexed perfect or something. Also do you use XD100?? Do you do a de-carb if so how and how often? I do a lot of trolling on Lake Huron I thinking maybe twice a season perhaps I should. When I got mine apart and saw all the carbon on the rings and grooves got me thinking I should have. Thanks

Hey Way2slow... I read this entire thread. I have the updated 2000 200HP Ficht. You seem to have good knowledge of the Fhict motors and something that I have always wanted to know is this... hoping you know. The oil system has the lift pump. If it quits or you run out of oil etc the alarm will go off. I get that. However what if the actual oil injector / manifold dies?? I don't see any type of sensor that would let the EMM know this so it sure seems like the first time you know it's already too late? Is this the case?? Or... does the injector restrict oil such as if it stopped you would notice a lot of smoke?? I bought mine used with 900 hours. I could tell looking at the history via the software he trolled for fish A LOT!! And I don't think he used the better XD100 oil so it was pretty carboned up. I should have done a de-carb but didn't.. I had a ring stick... break... and score a cylinder. I have since rebuilt the entire engine all new bearing and pistons and a sleeve in the one bad cylinder. Runs like a champ. But it bothers me I have all this invested in this thing and I sure would like to know what would happen if that oil injector failed. I finally found a NIB one for $325 and am going to install it just to ease my worries. But if you had an answer I would really appreciate it!!! Thanks