1990 Yamaha 200ETXD - any good?

[THEFERMANATOR]

YAMAHA's oil injection is one of the best second only to SUZUKI's(the only reason SUZUKI's is better is because there reservoir is under the cowling instead of remote mounted). They have a bronze gear on the crank and a steel drive gear for the pump shaft, so VERY few failures there. There only weak point is the remote oil tank set-up which is dependant on a switch and oil pump to get oil up to the engine. The pump is VERY reliable as it is rubber encased, but the switches do fail every so often. As for swapping out your I/O, I wouldn't. The 3.7L is a good engine for the most part, and will be HARD to beat for economy and reliability.

[yodaddy]

Originally Posted by THEFERMANATOR

YAMAHA's oil injection is one of the best second only to SUZUKI's(the only reason SUZUKI's is better is because there reservoir is under the cowling instead of remote mounted). They have a bronze gear on the crank and a steel drive gear for the pump shaft, so VERY few failures there. There only weak point is the remote oil tank set-up which is dependant on a switch and oil pump to get oil up to the engine. The pump is VERY reliable as it is rubber encased, but the switches do fail every so often. As for swapping out your I/O, I wouldn't. The 3.7L is a good engine for the most part, and will be HARD to beat for economy and reliability.

When I saw the 2.5-3mpg estimates I banished all thoughts of putting this outboard on my V. It's on a center console I picked up, and that's probably where I'll leave it.

I fired the motor up in the driveway today and it seems to run fine. I did notice an odd 'ting' sound every time I shifted from either forward or reverse into neutral. I had the cover off and eventually noticed what was happening was whenever I went into neutral the starter was engaging and bouncing off the flywheel. Ever run into this problem?