GreatBigTuna
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Hey everyone. New guy here with a sick Evinrude 225 DI. So here's my story. She completely shutdown without warning a few weeks ago while running back in from a day of trolling in the gulf stream. Just up and quit, in the Hatteras ferry channel with a big ass ferry behind me to boot. I was turning around 3400 RPM and it was like someone pulled the kill switch.
When it died, there were no alarms or check engine lights on the system check. When I tried to restart it, I got nothing. System check did its thing and reported ok, but when I turn the key to start, silence. No fuel pump running, no clicks, just silence. I checked all the basics (kill switch, neutral, both batteries good, 20A fuse to the EMM good) to no avail.
After trying over and over again (just hoping not to have to call Tow Boat US), system check finally gave me the 3 finger salute (chk eng, hot, no oil) so I gave in and called the man in the red boat to come get me. When I got her back on the hard, I tried again to start her, still no love for me, but it stopped giving me the 3 lights of death. So I started my internet sleuthing and found out that the 3 lights on the gauge lighting at the same time is a pretty common issue and was essentially my EMM giving me an obscene gesture for letting sediment build up in its cooling circuit, but oddly enough, in almost every case I found the problem was intermittent. The engine runs good for a bit, dies while running, issues the 3 light middle finger, cools down and then starts again. Mine did not show this last characteristic. That being said, even in the intermittent cases, once it occurs your EMM is pretty much toast.
So I called DFI technologies and spoke with Chet, who after listening to my story agreed that my EMM was likely faulty and would need to be rebuilt. $800 repair. That sucks, but what can you do? I took it off and sent it to them, but after having the EMM in their shop for a few days, they called and said that it working just fine. They even put it in an oven to see if it was a heat related problem, but it appears to be working just fine.
Well good news that I don't have to send them $800, but now I need to figure out why she won't turn over. I'm hoping that one of you will say that the same thing happened to you and it was XXXXXXX.... But short of that, I'm not really sure where to begin.
I've got the service manual, but I do not have the EV Daig software to connect to see what's doing in the computer.
DFI reported that there were no fault codes stored. Based on the fact that there were no faults recorded in the EMM, I'm thinking the issue is upstream of there. I checked the 20A inline fuse and the EMM ground. If it were some sort of sensor, I should have gotten a fault code. I'm not sure what there is left to check. Any ideas would be most appreciated before I start hacking around
Thanks in advance for your help!!!
When it died, there were no alarms or check engine lights on the system check. When I tried to restart it, I got nothing. System check did its thing and reported ok, but when I turn the key to start, silence. No fuel pump running, no clicks, just silence. I checked all the basics (kill switch, neutral, both batteries good, 20A fuse to the EMM good) to no avail.
After trying over and over again (just hoping not to have to call Tow Boat US), system check finally gave me the 3 finger salute (chk eng, hot, no oil) so I gave in and called the man in the red boat to come get me. When I got her back on the hard, I tried again to start her, still no love for me, but it stopped giving me the 3 lights of death. So I started my internet sleuthing and found out that the 3 lights on the gauge lighting at the same time is a pretty common issue and was essentially my EMM giving me an obscene gesture for letting sediment build up in its cooling circuit, but oddly enough, in almost every case I found the problem was intermittent. The engine runs good for a bit, dies while running, issues the 3 light middle finger, cools down and then starts again. Mine did not show this last characteristic. That being said, even in the intermittent cases, once it occurs your EMM is pretty much toast.
So I called DFI technologies and spoke with Chet, who after listening to my story agreed that my EMM was likely faulty and would need to be rebuilt. $800 repair. That sucks, but what can you do? I took it off and sent it to them, but after having the EMM in their shop for a few days, they called and said that it working just fine. They even put it in an oven to see if it was a heat related problem, but it appears to be working just fine.
Well good news that I don't have to send them $800, but now I need to figure out why she won't turn over. I'm hoping that one of you will say that the same thing happened to you and it was XXXXXXX.... But short of that, I'm not really sure where to begin.
I've got the service manual, but I do not have the EV Daig software to connect to see what's doing in the computer.
DFI reported that there were no fault codes stored. Based on the fact that there were no faults recorded in the EMM, I'm thinking the issue is upstream of there. I checked the 20A inline fuse and the EMM ground. If it were some sort of sensor, I should have gotten a fault code. I'm not sure what there is left to check. Any ideas would be most appreciated before I start hacking around
Thanks in advance for your help!!!
