496s Sure love their OIL PRESSURE

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06-16-2003, 03:32 PM

BAJA WILL

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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

GUESS IT WASN"T THE GAUGE after all.

Limp to the trailer on one motor pull it out, merc is sending new motor

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06-16-2003, 03:36 PM

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You keep running with no oil pressure???

06-16-2003, 03:51 PM

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You keep running with no oil pressure???

Iwas thinking the same thing. Especially with twins.

06-16-2003, 03:56 PM

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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.

06-16-2003, 03:59 PM

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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?

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06-17-2003, 07:04 AM

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To answer some questions, I would have stopped, but not my boat not my call

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.