[reelapeelin]

Welcome to da site ... we try to have some fun around here ... glad ya like yer "V" ... the more you use it, the more you'll like it ;) ... the good news about your Johnnie 175 is it should be a fairly easy thing to find a good OMC tec in the greater Chas area ... have you run a compression test on it?...the carbs probably need to be rebuilt ... those are real workhorse motors and once ya chase the bugs out, that'll be a GOOD performer ;) ...

Fish, there's an extensive history of failure of VROs on OMC (and Merc) from those years ... and of course when the auto-oiler fails, so do the MOTOR :o ... IT'S YO THANG...DO WATCHA WANNA DO ... but I can tell ya, dis ol' fat-boy's always disabled the VRO and gone to mixin' oil/gas ... yeah, it's another step, but it'll save you a step out to the motor fix-it-or-replace-it -store ;) ... for 3.99 an accu-mix bottle makes it EASY ;) ...