Hey guys what years Did Johnson make those fitch motors?

Thanks Tojo

I'm not sure of the exact years they made the FICHT motors but they do not have good reputations. At all.

Omc went bankrupt in 01 or 02 I think so that would be the last model years, seems like 95 or 96 was the first.

I'm no expert but here's what little I know about them.

One thing I forgot to mention, Johnson never did make a ficht motor, they were only the Evinrudes.   Both Johnson and Evinrude were made by OMC, and now by BRP.

Depends on which ficht you are talking about. I think the V-4's (90 - 115) were the first to hit the market around 1997. The 60 degree V-6's were next (150 & 175), I think they were around 1998. The 90 degree V-6's (200 & 225) hit in 1999. The 60 degree motors had all kinds of major issues, the V-4 faired a little better but they also had issues. I took them a couple of years to learn that indexing the plugs helped with the plug fouling problem they were plagued with, which was caused by soot build up when idleing. The redesinged the fuel line mounting in 99 because they would leak and catch fire. It's very easy to tell if they have the update just by looking, or any dealer can pull the SN up in the computer and tell if it was updated. In 2001 BRP took over production and made a number of engineering updates to the injectors and ECM so the 2001 was suppose to be a better motor than the earlier models but I think it was 2002 models that actually started living up to expectations.

The early 200s and 225's are good motors but do have have a problem with old gas that has been left in the system a few months. The injectors are very prone to slowing down slightly with old gas. This causing them to lean out and melt pistons. The ecm's have a few issues that showed up in about 15% of them. A company called DFI does and upgrade that makes about 50 changes to the ECM but that's about a $800 upgrade. I have a friend that bought 15 of the 200's for a commercial application in 1999. He put over 1,200 hours on everyone of them and never had a major failure. He ran those until 2004 when he replaced them with all new Evinrudes. He replaced those with the E-tec's. I've been running my 1999 225 for five years, which I had the ECM upgrade done on when I bought it, and have never had any issues. I also never let mine sit for more than a month without running it about 15 minutes on fresh gas and SeaFoam.