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Originally Posted by captpete13
Hey Oz, I see why you are skeptical about oil injection. A blown powerhead would piss me off too.
OMC's VRO yes I would get rid of. Merc 2.5 efi plastic crank gear and NO motion sensor yes get rid of. The only problem with tha Yamaha system especially from '90 on up is that the control module for the oil injection is built it to the ecu and not a seperate unit. So if it fails(very rare but I have seen it happen) you need to drop $1000 for a new ecu. There is a small inline filter on the remote oil tank back by the electric pump. If that is replaced every other year or so the system should be trouble free.
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You're right on the money, brand wise...my 1st encounters were '85/'86 OMCs of two friends of mine...BOTH failed and cooked the motors just out of warranty...later the Merc plastic gear got a friend's 200 Black Max...rebuilt it and BOOM!!...same thing happend 2nd time!!...
Leave it to Yamaha to come up w/the system less likely to fail and I've never heard of a Yam failure...but I'm still wary...