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The early FICHT years question
I'm looking at a nice Blackfin with twin '97 Johson 225's.
I'm cautious when I think of the late 90's when OMC made faulty Ficht outboards. I'm thinking '97 '98,'99? I know the injection system had problems then a fuel filter/reservoir issue. Did all units need to be corrected by an OMC mechanic? Is there a list of serial numbers for those corrected? Are there certain years/models to be avoided? Did Bombardier sell OMC if so what do we know about the buyer relative to any warrant? I |
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Jim and Becky wrote:
I'm looking at a nice Blackfin with twin '97 Johson 225's. I'm cautious when I think of the late 90's when OMC made faulty Ficht outboards. I'm thinking '97 '98,'99? I know the injection system had problems then a fuel filter/reservoir issue. Did all units need to be corrected by an OMC mechanic? Is there a list of serial numbers for those corrected? Are there certain years/models to be avoided? Did Bombardier sell OMC if so what do we know about the buyer relative to any warrant? I It's a defective design & while Ficht, OMC, then Bomb of course never actually admitted that, the history confirms it (OMC 7000 jobs chucked & US 1.3 billion of pension money peed against the wall) Bomb tried to deceptively drop the Ficht name but quickly realised that these days with NGs like this these, the old dealer delivered scams won't work anymore, so sold it. The core issue is that they try to deliberately run the engine very very lean at lower revs to get through the EPA regs, but it's been well known, understood & documented since before WW2 that this is at best very risky & in a goodly percentage of instances fatal to the engine. Leading to piston heat buildup, then when full fuel is re supplied as power is quickly increased, it leads to full destructive detonation. ( the head of OMC actually admitted a Ficht failure rate of 1 in 5 !!!) So be very careful because 1 in 5 Fichts fail & even accepting that all OMC & anyone connected to them were Ficht liars so it was probably more than that:-). Even so at 1 in 5 it's a pretty sad lottery. Yes the boat will be very cheap on account of it having a Ficht, but ........ Just in case you come across a similar boat with an Optimax on it be also aware that they are better but not by much. Notwithstanding they go about it a totally different mechanical way, the very same basic design fault is there. No manufacturer has managed to run engines lean at power & not suffer horrendous failure rate through detonation, & plenty have tried in the past, including Honda, Chrysler & NASA. (it "is" very basic rocket science) K |
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"K Smith" wrote in message ... Jim and Becky wrote: I'm looking at a nice Blackfin with twin '97 Johson 225's. I'm cautious when I think of the late 90's when OMC made faulty Ficht outboards. I'm thinking '97 '98,'99? I know the injection system had problems then a fuel filter/reservoir issue. Did all units need to be corrected by an OMC mechanic? Is there a list of serial numbers for those corrected? Are there certain years/models to be avoided? Did Bombardier sell OMC if so what do we know about the buyer relative to any warrant? It's a defective design & while Ficht, OMC, then Bomb of course never actually admitted that, the history confirms it (OMC 7000 jobs chucked & US 1.3 billion of pension money peed against the wall) Bomb tried to deceptively drop the Ficht name but quickly realised that these days with NGs like this these, the old dealer delivered scams won't work anymore, so sold it. They sold the whole rec products division, and the family bought it so there is likely more to it than that. And the 225 is reputed to have been better than the 150/175 in those days. True? I give up. snip K Has anyone seen a good explanation of Etech and how it is different from Ficht? They make it sound like a voice coil, ala disk drive. How do they couple the force into the fuel? Do I have to go hunt through Delphion.com or does someone have a patent number or two off a motor or manual? del cecchi |
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The early FICHT years question
del cecchi wrote:
"K Smith" wrote in message ... Jim and Becky wrote: I'm looking at a nice Blackfin with twin '97 Johson 225's. I'm cautious when I think of the late 90's when OMC made faulty Ficht outboards. I'm thinking '97 '98,'99? I know the injection system had problems then a fuel filter/reservoir issue. Did all units need to be corrected by an OMC mechanic? Is there a list of serial numbers for those corrected? Are there certain years/models to be avoided? Did Bombardier sell OMC if so what do we know about the buyer relative to any warrant? It's a defective design & while Ficht, OMC, then Bomb of course never actually admitted that, the history confirms it (OMC 7000 jobs chucked & US 1.3 billion of pension money peed against the wall) Bomb tried to deceptively drop the Ficht name but quickly realised that these days with NGs like this these, the old dealer delivered scams won't work anymore, so sold it. They sold the whole rec products division, and the family bought it so there is likely more to it than that. And the 225 is reputed to have been better than the 150/175 in those days. True? I give up. snip K Has anyone seen a good explanation of Etech and how it is different from Ficht? They make it sound like a voice coil, ala disk drive. How do they couple the force into the fuel? Do I have to go hunt through Delphion.com or does someone have a patent number or two off a motor or manual? del cecchi It's a scam nothing more, if there were actually a new technology we'd know about it by now. Sold it to the family?? gees louise what?? they couldn't find a proper commercial buyer for actual money??? You mean they unloaded a basket case nothing more. Marketing BS for the bent OMC dealers to spruik. K |
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The early FICHT years question
You speak of peeing against a wall as if it's a *bad* thing?
-W "K Smith" wrote in message news:bjo42k$kf4fg$1@ID- US 1.3 billion of pension money peed against the wall) |
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