Help on Johnson 115 outboards

I'm looking at buying a boat with a 2000 model Johnson ocean pro 115 on the back.

Can anyone tell me if these are the troubled FITCH engines and how do I identify a FITCH engine


'shakey'

Ring Downes marine

Hainsofast

Thanks buddy. Rang them and they assure me that the Ocean Pro 2000 115 hp did NOT come out with Fitch technology


'shakey'

Confirm it with Downesy but to my knowledge, by the time FICHT came along, Evinrude and Johnson had gone down different lines with Johnson being the older carby technology and Evinrude having the FICHT (lucky them). Shouldn't be too hard to tell just looking at the motor. The FICHT will have injectors - one for each cylinder, carbed wont.

There were some Bombardier high pressure direct injection motors weren't there?

Yes there were. Etec was progressively rolled out quite a few years.

http://www.evinrude.com/Historical-T...hure_FINAL.pdf

Scottar correct. Also the v4 fichts were never issue. It was the gen 1 and 2 v6 that went bang.

Is the Johnson you are looking at grey or white? For a while there the late model Johnsons went grey.

Johnson Ocean Runner will be a caby motor, Evinrude had the FICHT, and, as mentioned, the V4 was OK anyway, the only Johnson that was not a carby motor was the 4 stroke rebadged Suzuki.

Ocean pro are just good old school carb 2 strokes. The earlier ones had issues with fogging the rear 2 cylinders but 2000 would avoid that. A compression test would show it up. I had one for a few years on a cruisecraft which never gave trouble.

Had one for a while on my boat. It was an 03 V4 carby Johnno. When it was going it went well but had a few issues in the time I owned it. Loved a drink. Went through a couple of power packs. Traded it for a 4 stroke and never looked back.

I did a compression test and all cylinders were around 127. I think this is good from what I know


'shakey'

How much is it

GBC how much of drink do they like


'shakey'

How many revs are you going to run it at pushing what sized boat with what sort of load?

Cheers
Chimo

i had a 2004 90 v4 same engine as the 115 on a cruise craft explorer 500

in regards to fuel economy under 3500 reasonable above this it chews a bit and above that it uses all of it lol
grunty motor

I have got a 96 115 ocean runner on a 5.8 plate boat and at 4000 rpm find it quite economical depending on weather conditions on a flat day can run up to 4600 for the same sort of fuel consumption.
To do a run around the bay for the day(deepwater bend,mud island,cape moreton and back) is about 40/50 ltrs which is about a 1/4 of my tank. Good solid engine without issues.
Cheers

Mine was over propped and on a 550 outsider. It was 40 odd litres per hour at 25 odd mph. They will burn 65 an hour when you open them up a bit.


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I see a couple of question asked that I have not answered

Hainsofast - I talked the owner down from $20000 to $18000

Chimo - I'm not a fast driver on the water, drive at what is required. The boat is a 2000 model Seafare V-Sea

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Thats not a ficht engine, i would'nt touch the ficht engine if my life depended on it if the computers go your screwed only one company in the USA repairs the computers and they dont do international orders well they didnt when i had a E-Tec thats why i'll never touch one of those either evinrude rapes u on price :o look up on hunts marine what evinrude what for a EMM in Oz and u cant order one from america at 1/3rd the price because who ever does your EMM in OZ has to call evinrude and they wont allow the installation on a internationally ordered part they pretty much string u up

pretty sure evinrude needs to allocate out numbers or something for the process of swapping EMM's from my understanding so your mechanic needs approval u cant just simply change one in your back yard

I repeat, no Johnson FICHT engines were made, pretty simple really, Gazza, some of what you say is partially correct, but does not apply to this engine.