BigJewDaddyAndy
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I've contacted several outboard repair dudes out here on Oahu and I'm impatient for an answer after a week of no answers.
*2001 Yamaha F25 TLRA* (65-W)
So a quick history up to this point:
I went to take my little boat out and although it Idles well, when I got out of the marina and started to throttle up, my oil pressure alarm came on and the engine died. Due to my location, I put my big dive fins on right then and towed it back in myself. (the previous outing I had noticed a little oil in the fresh water flushing when I was washing down). I knew with how it died and the oil I saw I needed to get it out of the water ASAP.
When I looked up the issue (this time at least) there were a few options, main one being my piston rings.
So I tore the engine down, replaced the rings, all the oil seals and replaced all the gaskets, plugs, cleaned and re-lapped the valves, and even replaced the valve seals.
When I put back together, it fired right up with no issue, and i ran it for about 15 minutes before deciding I would try it out in the big puddle again.
Taking it back out, it died in exactly the same location when I started to throttle up and yet again, I towed it back in wearing my dive fins. LOL
So I opened the top breather box cover up last night, checked the filter thing in the breather box to make sure it wasn't so compressed it wouldn't let oil flow and when I put it back together, I disconnected the oil hose from the bottom of the engine at the breather box and hand cranked the engine (clockwise).
The oil actually came up from the engine on what I think was the compression stroke and filled the breather box and overflowed it.
I've see things about other breather boxes having a spring loaded valve in them however my boat has no such thing that I can find.
I was hoping someone who knew these engines a little better might know what is causing this issue.
I don't care if I need to tear the engine all the way down again, but I would be stoked to get this thing reliable again.
Any advice at all would be super appreciated.
Mahalos!
*2001 Yamaha F25 TLRA* (65-W)
So a quick history up to this point:
I went to take my little boat out and although it Idles well, when I got out of the marina and started to throttle up, my oil pressure alarm came on and the engine died. Due to my location, I put my big dive fins on right then and towed it back in myself. (the previous outing I had noticed a little oil in the fresh water flushing when I was washing down). I knew with how it died and the oil I saw I needed to get it out of the water ASAP.
When I looked up the issue (this time at least) there were a few options, main one being my piston rings.
So I tore the engine down, replaced the rings, all the oil seals and replaced all the gaskets, plugs, cleaned and re-lapped the valves, and even replaced the valve seals.
When I put back together, it fired right up with no issue, and i ran it for about 15 minutes before deciding I would try it out in the big puddle again.
Taking it back out, it died in exactly the same location when I started to throttle up and yet again, I towed it back in wearing my dive fins. LOL
So I opened the top breather box cover up last night, checked the filter thing in the breather box to make sure it wasn't so compressed it wouldn't let oil flow and when I put it back together, I disconnected the oil hose from the bottom of the engine at the breather box and hand cranked the engine (clockwise).
The oil actually came up from the engine on what I think was the compression stroke and filled the breather box and overflowed it.
I've see things about other breather boxes having a spring loaded valve in them however my boat has no such thing that I can find.
I was hoping someone who knew these engines a little better might know what is causing this issue.
I don't care if I need to tear the engine all the way down again, but I would be stoked to get this thing reliable again.
Any advice at all would be super appreciated.
Mahalos!