Just a word of advice

[rtb101]

My uncle was out fishing and on the way back to the ramp, the oil line to cylinder #2 broke with the outboard wide open and, well, you know what happened. Luckily, the trolling motor had enough juice left in it to get him back to the ramp.

He had to buy a new 150 Mercury and that really hurt his wallet!!!

So just a word of advice, if your boat has a 2-cycle outboard, always mix the oil with the gas. On a lot of outboards, there is a small plastic gear in the oil pump and if it ever strips, your outboard is ruined!!! Some outboard manufactors have replaced this with a brass gear, but not all of them. And plus oil runing through a rubber tube will eventually harden the tube and this will make it very vunerable to breakage. So from experience, I recomend mixing the oil & gas instead of depending on the oil pump, if you don't already. It may save you big bucks in the long run (and not to mention a good day fishing!!!)

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

When I replaced the 2-stroke on my Whaler jet, I replaced it w/a slightly larger engine and the new one came with a itty bitty oil pump on the crankcase cover.  I used the original crankcase cover instead and avoided the pump altogether for exactly this reason.

Good advice in my book, thanks for sharing.

[bowjunkie35]

You know, I have heard these horror stories. It sounds like good advice, but I really like the oil injection feature and the fact that I don't have to mix oil in my Suzuki 150hp! Never had a problem yet but I guess all it takes is one to shell the motor. Curious to know if anyone else has disabled their oil pump?

[DDbasser]

Bowjunkie35,

I bought a 1999 Javelin back in April of this year.

It had a 150 johnson on it also a 1999.

The 3rd time I had it on the water the oil injection

system quit working and i lost 2 cylinders.

I called the place where I bought the boat and they told me to bring it back and they would fix it.

They rebuilt the two bad cylinders, and I asked them to disable the oil injection system. Which they gladly did. The only problem I had was that they couldn't disable some of the sensors so the no oil light stayed on.

Even though I was mixing my oil and fuel I still ended up losing 2 different cylinders a couple weeks later.

I called up the dealer where I bought the boat, they said bring it back and offered to put a new powerhead on the motor or sell me a different boat.

I bought a 2001 Triton with a 150 johnson and I use the injection system, I haven't had any problems with this one and I'm very pleased with it.