Evinrude Ficht: Blocked Vapor Separator

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Eme777
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Evinrude Ficht: Blocked Vapor Separator

Postby Eme777 » Fri Aug 08, 2025 8:31 pm

Q1: on an Evinrude FICHT engine, how can the [fuel] vapor separator be unblocked?

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In an old forum post a user offshore 825 writes:
825offshore wrote:I was able to unblock the vapor separator and the engine ran great.
My Evinrude FICHT engine [of unspecified model year and horsepower] has the same symptoms--EMM Overtemp Code 25. I have checked all other components, and everything seems fine.

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Re: Evinrude Ficht: Blocked Vapor Separator

Postby jimh » Sat Aug 09, 2025 6:32 am

Please clarify:

Q2: which passage in the fuel vapor separator is blocked: the fuel or the cooling water?

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Re: Evinrude Ficht: Blocked Vapor Separator

Postby Jefecinco » Sun Aug 10, 2025 11:01 am

I seem to recall that on some FICHT engines the EMM cooling water passageway can be cleared after removing the EMM from the engine block, a relatively simple task.
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