115 evinrude ocean pro are they any good

[melbdan]

Has anyone here got a 96 115 evinrude ocean pro outboard engine are they any good have u had much problems would u bye a boat if it had one of these moters on it any info would be great thanks guys .

[bigbrian47]

the only crook evinrudes were the six cylinder fichts
if that motors been looked after it will give many more years
of good service cheers brian

[NQCairns]

Yep I would buy one in a hearbeat as long as it checked out as a good motor, if it is a 60deg looper, heaps of extra torque over the crossflow V4s and fair bit better on fuel also. The exact same engine (with minor changes) can still be bought new today.nq

[searaider]

Hi Melbdan ,
I had a 1997 115 Ocean Pro on a 5.75 Quintrex Searaider Cuddy cabin .
I had the rig until I upgraded in 2002 .
The motor only had 130 hours on it when I sold it . I didn't have any problems with it then & neither has the mate I sold the boat too .
I always found it to be real smokey , when you first started it at the ramp . After that for the rest of the day it was fine .
Sundown marine checked the setting on the oil injection pump & said it was Ok .
Flat out at 5300 RPM spinning a standard aluminum 17 pitch prop it pushed my Quinnie to 35 knots & had heaps of low down torque .
As posted by Bigbrian 47 , The Ficht fuel injected Johnson /Evinrudes , after the Ocean Pro's had a habit of blowing up & was the demise of OMC.
Peter
Searaider 2

[Smithy]

They are a pretty thirsty motor.

Mate had an early one a 5.5 Viking and it had a few factory recalls but that motor in particular never let him down. The warranty stuff was to do with the exhausting and water getting in from what I recall.

After owning and being on boats with big 4 strokes I could never go back to a carby motor for offshore. That said I love my little 25 2 stroke Merc on my little boat.