Hello Guys,
I recently purchased a 93 Johnson 150 and had to rebuild the VRO2 to get her on the water. Having completed that project and getting the boat running, but now that I have had her on the water I have a concern.
The symptom is that the horn honks at startup (expected I think), and then beeps every 40 seconds.
According to both the service manual and HighTrims update in
http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=228679
This is because the Oil Pump is less than 1/4 full.
When I was first debugging I didnt give this much thought, and I am sure that is the case because at one point in debugging shorts I had cut the black and white wire to the Oil tank, and the beep every 40 seconds stopped. I thought I simply needed to add oil and I would be fine.
However, before the lake run on Sunday I put 1/2 a gallon of oil in the tank, and yet the beeping persists. Due to the horn being the best indicator of problems should I focus on the unit in the top of the Oil Container (probably called something like the sending unit) or something else (disconnecting the horn is not an option in my opinion)?
Also, does anyone have a tip on how to check the oil level in the Oil Tank? I am not seeing an easy way to do this, and as critical as oil is I am sure they would have given us some method for doing this (I am not trying to give OMC to much credit, but I can check oil in cars/trucks/lawnmowers, why not a boat).
I also have a series of very rookie questions. should I open a separate post for these or just stream them in this thread. For example:
- best startup procedures
- what is this 'dohickie' type questions
- and so forth. real basic stuff.
Sorry to be asking such a rookie question.
Roy
I recently purchased a 93 Johnson 150 and had to rebuild the VRO2 to get her on the water. Having completed that project and getting the boat running, but now that I have had her on the water I have a concern.
The symptom is that the horn honks at startup (expected I think), and then beeps every 40 seconds.
According to both the service manual and HighTrims update in
http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=228679
This is because the Oil Pump is less than 1/4 full.
When I was first debugging I didnt give this much thought, and I am sure that is the case because at one point in debugging shorts I had cut the black and white wire to the Oil tank, and the beep every 40 seconds stopped. I thought I simply needed to add oil and I would be fine.
However, before the lake run on Sunday I put 1/2 a gallon of oil in the tank, and yet the beeping persists. Due to the horn being the best indicator of problems should I focus on the unit in the top of the Oil Container (probably called something like the sending unit) or something else (disconnecting the horn is not an option in my opinion)?
Also, does anyone have a tip on how to check the oil level in the Oil Tank? I am not seeing an easy way to do this, and as critical as oil is I am sure they would have given us some method for doing this (I am not trying to give OMC to much credit, but I can check oil in cars/trucks/lawnmowers, why not a boat).
I also have a series of very rookie questions. should I open a separate post for these or just stream them in this thread. For example:
- best startup procedures
- what is this 'dohickie' type questions
- and so forth. real basic stuff.
Sorry to be asking such a rookie question.
Roy
