95 MERCURY oil injection, keep it or ditch it?

THEFERMANATOR · #1 06-26-2007, 12:40 AM

I know this has been beat to death, but I'm beating myself up over the decision wether or not to remove the oil injection from my 95 150HP XRI engine that I just hung on my PROLINE flats boat. So what is the general consensus on MERCURY's V6 oil injection system? Good, bad or indifferent. I'm just about ready to dunk her, but have to decide wether or not to run the oil injection. I have it running right now, but haven't mounted the tank yet(just set it next to the boat and hooked it up with pre-mix in the tank).

And on a side note: Do you think a re-ring job will fix this one?

THEFERMANATOR · #2 06-26-2007, 12:40 AM

I know this has been beat to death, but I'm beating myself up over the decision wether or not to remove the oil injection from my 95 150HP XRI engine that I just hung on my PROLINE flats boat. So what is the general consensus on MERCURY's V6 oil injection system? Good, bad or indifferent. I'm just about ready to dunk her, but have to decide wether or not to run the oil injection. I have it running right now, but haven't mounted the tank yet(just set it next to the boat and hooked it up with pre-mix in the tank).

And on a side note: Do you think a re-ring job will fix this one?

Skools Out · #3 06-26-2007, 01:11 AM

nope re-ring won't fix that and ditch the oil injection since mercury used a plastic gear to run the oil pump and the gears cracked and no alarm but they would slow the oiling and yeap look like your motor there.

Skools Out · #4 06-26-2007, 01:11 AM

nope re-ring won't fix that and ditch the oil injection since mercury used a plastic gear to run the oil pump and the gears cracked and no alarm but they would slow the oiling and yeap look like your motor there.

Seacrets · #5 06-26-2007, 01:22 AM

Personal preference. *I've never had problems with my two Merc 150's (86 & 2000), but I guess others have. You may want to get more info from Mercury owners and their good or bad luck.

Seacrets · #6 06-26-2007, 01:22 AM

Personal preference. *I've never had problems with my two Merc 150's (86 & 2000), but I guess others have. You may want to get more info from Mercury owners and their good or bad luck.

THEFERMANATOR · #7 06-26-2007, 01:23 AM

The pictures are the result of the previous owners 6000RPM+ pass running it at 100:1 pre-mix :o, not a pretty site. It actually looks better in the pictures than it really is. I've always had good luck with the MIKUNI oil injection pumps, but I have a bad gut feeling about the 2 piece plastic crank gear. I guess it decided, ditch the oil injection and run it 50:1 and live with some smoke ;D. On the bright side though, it had a full 3 gallon oil tank filled with QUIKSILVER oil when I bought the other boat for it's engine.

THEFERMANATOR · #8 06-26-2007, 01:23 AM

The pictures are the result of the previous owners 6000RPM+ pass running it at 100:1 pre-mix :o, not a pretty site. It actually looks better in the pictures than it really is. I've always had good luck with the MIKUNI oil injection pumps, but I have a bad gut feeling about the 2 piece plastic crank gear. I guess it decided, ditch the oil injection and run it 50:1 and live with some smoke ;D. On the bright side though, it had a full 3 gallon oil tank filled with QUIKSILVER oil when I bought the other boat for it's engine.

Skools Out · #9 06-26-2007, 01:31 AM

i;ve seen several break due to those plastic gears if you could find some bronze or brass gears then it would be great deal.

Skools Out · #10 06-26-2007, 01:31 AM

i;ve seen several break due to those plastic gears if you could find some bronze or brass gears then it would be great deal.