sorry about the lateness of my reply but your answer to my question on estimated mpg was very helpful and much appreciated as it gave me the needed inputs to estimate fuel requirements for our trip. however the volume I wound up burning turned out to be only a fraction of the estimated volume.... so I factored for a roundtrip distance of about 38 miles with one refill while near our destination before return to be more than adequate to allow for some sport and leisure cruising and fuel consumption while at location to be well in excess of our needs as i started out with a 40gal tank full of fuel and in no hurry to make time during transit.... Alas we only made it about 2/3rds of the way there luckily we had just stopped and topped off the tank before we suffered a catastrophic failure of the motor due to a sudden failure of the oil injection system ("of which the previous owner had unhooked the warning light for and then neglected to tell me when I bought the motor") while underway and under load while in a very unfortunate stretch of our plotted course. Good thing I had all that fresh un mixed gas on board because I wound up needing to feed the beast that happened to stop an offer us a tow almost 15 miles back to our port of departure
it was an oil injected optimax
unless the prior owner disconnected the injection line
nope he never "converted it" at least not properly as I owned it for a season and a half before it failed on me and the oiler system worked just fine throughout that stretch. he might have been forgoing the use of the oiler and just mixing his own but he didn't warn me that I would have to do that... my own fault for taking him at his word and not doing my own due dilligence and having it properly inspected and reading up on the problems that that particular system are prone to... which as it turns out are sudden failures in the oiler system which is why there is a warning buzzer and light for when the oil stops flowing... alas it was never functional while I owned it. The first thing that the shop did was locate the isolated wiring for the warning light hook it back up and guess what.... the thing lit up like a christmas tree. After that all they had to do was pop the head cover off the motor and show me the inside of the cylinder walls to make it clear she was now nothing more than a replacment lower unit for someone elses project.
It can, just not very long
while I have your attention do you know anything about the big ole carver santa cruz vdrives?
while I have your attention do you know anything about the big ole carver santa cruz vdrives? and how and where to measure on the old prop to find all the needed specifics to find a replacement prop
