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Why did you remove the shift rod? Is the O-ring seal failing? Generally that is not something you should do. With these motors, if you remove and replace, screw them all the way back in. You will need to put the gearcase back on and do a little bit of trial and error with adjusting the height to ins...

If you have spark on one cylinder of both engines, you at least know the charge coils are working. Make sure you have a fully charged set of batteries--at 12.6-Volts--so the cranking speed is high enough. Evinrude 225 Oceanpro engines use an optical ignition system. That both would behave the same i...

Old thread but trying to get on this forum more often. I'm a full time old OMC repair mechanic specializing just in carbureted OMC's. The red wire is a feed from the rectifier to charge the battery. They are still using the same color codes today on ETECs as they started using universally on all of ...

do yourself a favor and disable the oil feature of the pump and premix. The #1 destroyer of every OMC motor after 1985 (when first introduced) is a failed VRO pump that is clogged, or mistakes water/condensation in the gas as oil. It's really easy to do and all you have to do is pour in your TCW-3 a...

Hello All, This my first post here, and I'm a new whaler owner. Yes, one of those guys. I have a--guessing because there is no hull ID number--a 1968 16-foot 7-inch custom Boston Whaler. I have a 1993 Johnson 70-HP engine installed. I work on smaller OMC motors, 70-HP and below. On another forum, I ...