496s Sure love their OIL PRESSURE
 

Out in my friends new 30 BAJA w/ 496s this weekend, let me first say that is allot of boat for the money. Anyway, 7 hours into it starboard motor looses all oil pressure, not to long after that we start hearing some really big knocks:rolleyes: GUESS IT WASN"T THE GAUGE after all.:D :D Limp to the trailer on one motor pull it out, merc is sending new motor;)

WILL

You keep running with no oil pressure???

Iwas thinking the same thing. Especially with twins.

In that situation, I would. Brand new boat, and something is going wrong... I would run it till it blew. I would not want some po-dunk local mechanic trying to fix my brand new motor if I could just get a brand new one.

I thought the brain on the engine would stop/slow the engine on the newer packages (496HO,525EFI) when it detected a malfunction like oil pressure or temp. Do you have to have the SmartCraft computer to activate those features?

G

To answer some questions, I would have stopped, but not my boat not my call:D As for the alarm going off and such nothing happened, so we really did think it was just the gauge, no over heating, nothing and then KNOCK, KNOCK done. I mean damn a oil pump should last longer than 7 hours.

As for what Brian said, I agree, brand new boat with 7 hours forget a rebuild, only a new motor will due.:cool:

Will