Greetings and salutations,
I have a 95 Evinrude 150 and I think it's trying to sound the NO OIL alarm. I was out running with it yesterday at about 30mph and I noticed a faint tick-tick-tick-tick coming from under and to the right of the steering wheel area where the throttle is (it's a bass boat). The pace of the tick is kinda fast - two to four per second.
At first I thought it was my depth finder acting up. I shut all that crud down and it still continues. Then I noticed it was not as much of a "tick" as a squelched "beep". Once I noticed this, I dropped off plane, shut it down and started checking things. I check my info sticker - the closest pattern to this is the NO OIL alarm (continuous short beeps). The bulb coming from the oil tank is firm - very firm, and I find nothing obvious (like an empty oil box) so I fired it back up and let it idle. No beeping. I'm a good bit from shore so I decide to just idle back in until I'm close enough the trolling motor can take over if needed. I get back to a safe point and I bring the boat back up on plane - about 20mph. The ticking/beeping starts again. It becomes more obvious that it's not a tick but rather a beep. It also appears that the sound level of the beep is directly proportional to the the RPM's of the motor, but I could be adding detail to a stressful situation that wasn't there.
The sound level of the alarm is *very* weak. I have freaky good hearing, and I had to focus on the sound to hear it. It's not the fire alarm wake up the dead noise that horn has made in the past. The horn correctly beeps nice and loudly when the ignition key is turned. I've heard the low oil alarm in the past - it was LOUD. This alarm isn't very loud at all. I suppose the horn could be going, but it does seem to work. Is there a test for this I can perform?
My first thought is that there is an oil flow restriction, but I don't know where to start. I presume there is an oil filter, but I can't find it. Where is that sucker? While looking for the filter, I took the hood off the motor and looked for obvious problems. I didn't find any broken hoses, but I did find something on the front of the front of (what I think is) the oil pump. Some kind of electronic block that has the cover broken over:
I moved the cover back over it so that it is now covered, but what is that thing, and does it need fixin?
This is a photo of the front of the motor. There was a little oil laying around, but it wasn't substantial. There was a little oil puddled up at the front of the carbs - is that normal? Also, there was a little more oil on the oil supply line than I thought should be there, but I'm the exact opposite of an expert regarding these things....
I sure would appreciate any help with this. I just spent $400 at the shop and the wife is going to smack me if I have to dump a lot more right now...
cheers and thanks for any advise,
Chris Curran
I have a 95 Evinrude 150 and I think it's trying to sound the NO OIL alarm. I was out running with it yesterday at about 30mph and I noticed a faint tick-tick-tick-tick coming from under and to the right of the steering wheel area where the throttle is (it's a bass boat). The pace of the tick is kinda fast - two to four per second.
At first I thought it was my depth finder acting up. I shut all that crud down and it still continues. Then I noticed it was not as much of a "tick" as a squelched "beep". Once I noticed this, I dropped off plane, shut it down and started checking things. I check my info sticker - the closest pattern to this is the NO OIL alarm (continuous short beeps). The bulb coming from the oil tank is firm - very firm, and I find nothing obvious (like an empty oil box) so I fired it back up and let it idle. No beeping. I'm a good bit from shore so I decide to just idle back in until I'm close enough the trolling motor can take over if needed. I get back to a safe point and I bring the boat back up on plane - about 20mph. The ticking/beeping starts again. It becomes more obvious that it's not a tick but rather a beep. It also appears that the sound level of the beep is directly proportional to the the RPM's of the motor, but I could be adding detail to a stressful situation that wasn't there.
The sound level of the alarm is *very* weak. I have freaky good hearing, and I had to focus on the sound to hear it. It's not the fire alarm wake up the dead noise that horn has made in the past. The horn correctly beeps nice and loudly when the ignition key is turned. I've heard the low oil alarm in the past - it was LOUD. This alarm isn't very loud at all. I suppose the horn could be going, but it does seem to work. Is there a test for this I can perform?
My first thought is that there is an oil flow restriction, but I don't know where to start. I presume there is an oil filter, but I can't find it. Where is that sucker? While looking for the filter, I took the hood off the motor and looked for obvious problems. I didn't find any broken hoses, but I did find something on the front of the front of (what I think is) the oil pump. Some kind of electronic block that has the cover broken over:
I moved the cover back over it so that it is now covered, but what is that thing, and does it need fixin?
This is a photo of the front of the motor. There was a little oil laying around, but it wasn't substantial. There was a little oil puddled up at the front of the carbs - is that normal? Also, there was a little more oil on the oil supply line than I thought should be there, but I'm the exact opposite of an expert regarding these things....
I sure would appreciate any help with this. I just spent $400 at the shop and the wife is going to smack me if I have to dump a lot more right now...
cheers and thanks for any advise,
Chris Curran
