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Are you talking two stroke DI or four stroke DI?

Water ingestion via the exhaust is a known issue. I have never heard of it being "swept under the rug" by Yamaha. The problem usually happens due to aggressive driving or misapplication of the throttles. It is not a warranty issue. It is induced damage. Warranty covers defects in materials and...

How did you get water intrusion into your motor? Up the exhaust or ???

Only GW knows for sure (why not contact them) but my guess that it is the result of a cost versus benefit analysis. The design team must have thought that non-tinned wire would meet their objectives, and it must be doing so since they continue to use non-tinned wire. Could they have used a more...

It is fairly typical to see that type of damage. The blades on the left hand side of a right hand rotation prop are moving upward. A blade can pick up a board or such and it gets wedged between the top of the upward moving blade and the bottom of the anti-ventilation plate. Something has to give...

It is absolutely, positively not true. Whatever you do, however, if you use Stabil, use the marine formula. Now, think about this for a minute. Suppose you have a fuel related problem that is clearly not covered by warranty but you would like some goodwill help from Yamaha. If your dealer...

Connect the two single pink wires with the white nylon connector at the end of each (one is female and the other is male).

Oil tank bracket Send me a PM with your mailing address.

Never, ever, under any circumstances try and run a four stroke on fuel that has been contaminated with two stroke oil. Oil reduces the octane rating significantly. The F150 four stroke is a high compression motor and does not have a knock sensor. High compression motors don't last too long with...

Re: Help, removing center piston on PTT I don't know what you mean by "bottom shaft to the center piston". The piston is the part that comes out of the cylinder. At the top of the piston is a pin that attaches the piston to the motor. That pin has a circlip holding it in place. Is that what...

Is the power trim and tilt mechanism removed from the motor or not? You say that it is but then you say you can't get the tilt piston pin (the one with the circlip) out. If the pin is not removed the ptt mechanism can't be removed. The normal procedure would be to position the motor to the...

I stand by my answer. It would be nice if the original poster could ring in on exactly what happened and when.

Did you shift quickly into reverse while still going forward? The prop can drive the engine backwards and the exhaust becomes the intake. Water is literally drawn up the exhaust and then into the cylinder heads and cylinders. This is not a warrantable defect if this is what happened. It is...

You advance the throttle handle to the wide open position prior to doing the test.

What fault light exactly are you referring to? Is it the one that indicates that the remote tank is low on oil? If it is, your system is working as it is supposed to. Once the remote tank gets low on (but not out of) oil the system terminates auto oil transfer. You can then manually transfer...

Does the name Rube Goldberg ring a bell here? What was Yamaha thinking? Their craftsmanship is superb. Their engineering not so much.

How did OMC do it? That weight is amazing. My old Merc 175EFI weighed approximately 466 pounds and I thought it a light weight compared to my Yam F200.

Maybe my reply was not as clear as it should have been. My comment was that if there is low oil in the remote tank the alarm will not sound. That is, the buzzer will not be activated. Also, the motor will not go into RPM reduction as would be the case if the main tank is low on oil. If...

The test you posted looks very complete. The problem with just using the return to port switch is that it does not test the automatic transfer function, just the manual function. And, you don't want to remove the main oil tank sensor any more than is necessary since the rubber seal may...

Yep, a manufacturing defect I would say.