[RonnieB2]

I have an Evinrude outboard 65hp VRO. I bought it used - I'm told it's from mid 1980s. I've had no problem for 6 years. This year it started stalling out after about 30-40 minutes and I can't get it started again until 10-15 later. It happens sooner/easier when there's a load (e.g. wakeboarding with people in the boat). Water is flowing out of it ok. People said that it sounded like fuel was being restricted. I swapped out fuel hose and tank - still happened.

I brought it to a marnia mechanic. He took it out and did reproduce the problem but then checked the engine and could not find anything wrong. He started it again it ran it for 45 min with no problem. I took it back and it was ok for a while but then it started happening again.

Just today the alarm started beeping on-off-on-off at approx 1 sec intervals when idling. I looked this up and it means low oil. However, when I bought the boat the mechanic disconnected the oil tank and I've been using 50:1 pre-mix for the last 6 years.

I'm thinking fuel pump. What do you think?

[HighTrim]

Welcome to iboats.

To start, post the model number so that we can determine a year for you.

Secondly, the beeping every other second is either a VRO failure, air leak in oil line, oil restriction...

the motor thinks that oil is not being supplied to the engine for one reason or another.

How did you convert to premix? Will pumping the fuel primer bulb pick it back up again? Are you using the VRO pump?

[RonnieB2]

Thanks Chris.

The model # is VE60TLESM

The mechanic at the marnina that I bought the boat from converted it to use premix so I don't know how he did it. I've had no problem since he did it 6 years ago. I think it is still using the VRO pump.

I'll need to try pumping the bulb when I'm up at the cottage again next weekend.

Since there isn't an oil line (so no restriction or air leak), wouldn't the beeping be because of a pump failure?