2004 Mercury 60/40 Jet oil injection removal/bypass?

[JBsteelie]

Hello All. I bought this motor brand new and it has been flawless for me in the 11 years owning it and running it ALOT. I recently had someone tell me about how his oil injected mercury jet had a failure and seized up which totaled it, having to replace it with a new motor. After searching online, this seems to be an issue but what I saw was mainly 80's and 90's model mercs and Evo motors with oil injector failures. Something tells me to bypass it and start premixing it, but I do love the convenience of the built in oil reservoir not having to do the mix. I understand that it's a plastic gear or bearing that causes most of the failures but not sure for my year motor. I was hoping to get some opinions here on whether to bypass the auto oil injection, or to keep running it as is.

Thanks in advance
Jake B.

 

[Faztbullet]

Mercs with them bottom driven oil gear rarely fail unless overheated, most of the failures are on the early V-6 motors.If it was mine I would leave it be....JMO

 

[JBsteelie]

Thanks for the reply Fazbullet. I use this motor year round (appx. 30-60 times during the year) mostly short runs upriver on PacNW rivers, and redrifting fishy water. So I don't think overheating issues *should* be a problem. Maybe running the motor 20 min max at cruising speeds up the river. I'm thinking to keep it as is, but would hate to see a good motor burn out due to an injection issue.