JohnRudes

[Skools Out]

Originally Posted by evilgli

i have this article and read it several times. Svence, i still run my VRO system on my 1996 Johnson 150 and have no worries with it. i check my reservoir religiously and when it gets about half way down i fill it up to the top. about twice a month i look over the lines and connections from the reservoir to the engine.

i know alot of people hate the VRO system, and maybe one day i will too, but i like using it now and if it fails, such is life. but i know alot of people local that are using the VRO system and there engines are still running.

i think people are afraid of things they don't understand and repair. so they just remove or don't use it and feel better. but the system works and ALOT of people use it. but like it has been said, your system didn't fail, it worked fine up to the point that it ran out of oil.

You can speak for others but i understand them as do the others that have commented. They are junk in so many ways for one that you and many others using them don't know most likely the VRO on OMC runs off the gray Tach wiring so if the tach misses or is off from your regulator which is a common issue with OMC You loose oil. They are crap as i have had several that the oil injection was off due to the voltage regulator. not new to this as i currently own 6 Johnson 225's , 2 Evinrude 140's and 2 Johnson 140's not to mention the other 10 or so i've had in the past few yrs and sold. The Merc's run a plastic gear on the oil pump which breaks and will still turn slow enough to give no alarm but will run the motor lean on oil so yeah it's death for the merc then. If you run the VRO on any 2 stroke other than the late model Yamaha's then it's only time till you spend money on a rebuild that just premixing would avoid.

this from Lord Skool's