On posts here and there regarding this topic, it's been stated that Mercury customer service will help nondealer-nonmechanic call-in customers find parts/#s, sell the parts, and even send instructions on how to do the job. Well, no more. I called and was told they no longer help out for "liability" reasons due to customers botching repairs and blaming Mercury. There is a Quicksilver kit, available on ebay and elsewhere, that has a shaft, two screws, and an O-ring. That's four parts. Mercury customer service told me the job took 6-8 parts, but would not tell my anything else, and said I should contact a local dealer to help me out and order parts. I called a local dealer-mechanic, and they had no idea what to do and could not find any parts for this job. I asked about service bulletins and even pointed out numbers 94-6, 96-10, and even 97-18 ?Oil Injection Gear Failures - 135 thru 200 - 2.0L, 2.4L, & 2.5L V6? which should deal directly with this problem, but they had no clue. Does anyone have a copy of 97-18 you can post?
Specifically, I have a 98 Sugar Sand Tango with a Mercury 175XR2 Sport Jet with a nonworking oiling system and loud warning beeps. I performed all the tests in the manual and it seems I have the plastic gear failure; no oil comes out of the line from the oil injection pump to the fuel pump when the engine is running. So I figure the plastic "Gear-driven" is stripped. I have not removed the oil assembly yet, but do I have to? What is wrong with leaving it in and premixing? Other posts have said the plastic bits will do nothing to the metal engine and no one has described a noninvasive method to get them out.
Also, the Oil Block Off Kit has a long shaft that appears to take the place of the gear, implying that I can take the gear out, but I was under the impression that the gear had to be left in. If the original gear can be left in, why the need for a replacement shaft in the kit. Does the original gear easily lift out of the hole?
Another thing, one of the tests I did was for a defective motion sensor in the oil injection pump. The service manual said that output voltage should peak at 5V
+ or - 1V and then drop to less than 1.0 volt during every 2 revolutions of the engine. When I did this, it only went from 5V to 4V. The manual said "should" not "must," so am I OK there? Or does it really matter since my plastic gear appears to be stripped and I might take out the motion sensor anyway?
Thank you very much. Any help is appreciated.
Specifically, I have a 98 Sugar Sand Tango with a Mercury 175XR2 Sport Jet with a nonworking oiling system and loud warning beeps. I performed all the tests in the manual and it seems I have the plastic gear failure; no oil comes out of the line from the oil injection pump to the fuel pump when the engine is running. So I figure the plastic "Gear-driven" is stripped. I have not removed the oil assembly yet, but do I have to? What is wrong with leaving it in and premixing? Other posts have said the plastic bits will do nothing to the metal engine and no one has described a noninvasive method to get them out.
Also, the Oil Block Off Kit has a long shaft that appears to take the place of the gear, implying that I can take the gear out, but I was under the impression that the gear had to be left in. If the original gear can be left in, why the need for a replacement shaft in the kit. Does the original gear easily lift out of the hole?
Another thing, one of the tests I did was for a defective motion sensor in the oil injection pump. The service manual said that output voltage should peak at 5V
+ or - 1V and then drop to less than 1.0 volt during every 2 revolutions of the engine. When I did this, it only went from 5V to 4V. The manual said "should" not "must," so am I OK there? Or does it really matter since my plastic gear appears to be stripped and I might take out the motion sensor anyway?
Thank you very much. Any help is appreciated.
