Help on Johnson 115 outboards

[shakey55]

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'

[hainsofast]

Ring Downes marine

[shakey55]

Hainsofast

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


'shakey'

[scottar]

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.

[Smithy]

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

[scottar]

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

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

[myusernam]

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

[Smithy]

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

[Noelm]

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.

[GBC]

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.

[The Black Unicorn]

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.

[shakey55]

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


'shakey'

[hainsofast]

How much is it

[shakey55]

GBC how much of drink do they like


'shakey'

[Chimo]

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

Cheers
Chimo