Hello all,
Just to verify my thoughts...
After months of restoration, I was finally able to put my boat in the water yesterday for a trial run. Prior to this, I replaced the primer bulb/line running from the VRO to the engine(87' J60TLCUC). Since only running it on the muffs since I purchased it, I've been running it on a 50:1 mix in the tank until I was able to verify that the VRO worked by drawing a line on the tank where the oil level was.
After 5 minutes of "No Wake" speeds, I got the VRO alarm, the beeps would speed up as throttle was increased. Thinking I have air in the line, I stopped(with engine running), and squeezed the primer until the alarm quit(3 hard squeezes). 10 minutes after bulb squeeze, and 90% WOT, I got the alarm again, and repeated the bulb squeezes. After 20 minutes of the previous session, I had the same incident, still at 90% WOT, then it was time to go due to storms.
Since the time between alarms has increased, I assume(I know, I know), that I am bleeding air from the system, but I wasn't sure how long this may go on. From using 2 1/2 gallons of premix, my oil tank has dropped very close to 1/2", does this sound right?
Perhaps keep running the premix until I get no alarm after "x" amount of time?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Just to verify my thoughts...
After months of restoration, I was finally able to put my boat in the water yesterday for a trial run. Prior to this, I replaced the primer bulb/line running from the VRO to the engine(87' J60TLCUC). Since only running it on the muffs since I purchased it, I've been running it on a 50:1 mix in the tank until I was able to verify that the VRO worked by drawing a line on the tank where the oil level was.
After 5 minutes of "No Wake" speeds, I got the VRO alarm, the beeps would speed up as throttle was increased. Thinking I have air in the line, I stopped(with engine running), and squeezed the primer until the alarm quit(3 hard squeezes). 10 minutes after bulb squeeze, and 90% WOT, I got the alarm again, and repeated the bulb squeezes. After 20 minutes of the previous session, I had the same incident, still at 90% WOT, then it was time to go due to storms.
Since the time between alarms has increased, I assume(I know, I know), that I am bleeding air from the system, but I wasn't sure how long this may go on. From using 2 1/2 gallons of premix, my oil tank has dropped very close to 1/2", does this sound right?
Perhaps keep running the premix until I get no alarm after "x" amount of time?
Any advice would be appreciated.
