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Originally Posted by Bigcat
I have used nothing but ficht oil,added carbon guard 1 oz to every 8 gallons of gas, decarbod every 100 hours, and the freakin thing still blew up.  |
What year motor???
I know from experience how easy it was to have a Ficht blow!!! Had two powerheads blow on the 2000 year model!!! When still owned by Johny/rude the 1999-2001 had some serious issues with quality control!!!! Hopefully since Bombardier took over the problems were resolved!!!!
Blown powerheads are not always caused by carbon build up!!! One reason could be that it was running lean, not enough oil!!!!
A good mechanic can tell what the cause was by looking at the piston!!!
If anybody is interested click on iboats.com and go to the outboard section of evinrude/ johnson for those of us back yard mechanics!!!!!