I have a 2001 Johnson 150, it has been a great running motor with no issues, this past week I ran engine decarb thru it and then the next day I changed the plugs and ran it again, at the house in a tub.
I went to take the boat out saturday and it acted like the VRO pump was not pumping fuel and oil. The engine would only run for a couple minuits and I would loose prime, and gave the no oil alarm. After several attempts I took the boat home and I took off the hose that goes to the pulse limiter and turned it over and it had pulses. so then i disconected the two hoses coming out of the VRO that go to the carb intake, turned it over and it was pumping. Since then I have run the boat at the house 2 other times once for over 1/2 hour. Everything seems to be fine.
Instead of bypassing my VRO the traditional way I was thinking about putting a Tee in my fuel line to both the fuel and oil side of the VRO, mixing 50:1, that would keep the VRO lubricated and not totally disconnected. I know the issue I had seems like the problem was the VRO itself been totally bad, but this will give me piece of mind as far as oil lubrication to the engine, until I get this figured out.Any thoughts on this would greatly be apprieated.
Thank you
Henry
I went to take the boat out saturday and it acted like the VRO pump was not pumping fuel and oil. The engine would only run for a couple minuits and I would loose prime, and gave the no oil alarm. After several attempts I took the boat home and I took off the hose that goes to the pulse limiter and turned it over and it had pulses. so then i disconected the two hoses coming out of the VRO that go to the carb intake, turned it over and it was pumping. Since then I have run the boat at the house 2 other times once for over 1/2 hour. Everything seems to be fine.
Instead of bypassing my VRO the traditional way I was thinking about putting a Tee in my fuel line to both the fuel and oil side of the VRO, mixing 50:1, that would keep the VRO lubricated and not totally disconnected. I know the issue I had seems like the problem was the VRO itself been totally bad, but this will give me piece of mind as far as oil lubrication to the engine, until I get this figured out.Any thoughts on this would greatly be apprieated.
Thank you
Henry