Need guidance on VRO threads

[vtskier]

can anyone point me in the proper direction on threads that deal with VRO engines. I am in the process of looking at a boat with a VRO its a johnson 120 and have not had much sucsess at finding any thread that deals with prevenative maintenance and or reliability all help much appreciated

 

[Chris1956]

Re: Need guidance on VRO threads

VRO systems on motors do not require any special maintenance. Every season I siphon a qt of oil off the the bottom of the oil reservoir to remove any residual water or dirt, but that's is about it. After I remove the dirt, I refill with the cleaned oil. Newer VRS systems are better than the older ones. What year motor are you looking at?

 

[Aquaman-PSD]

Re: Need guidance on VRO threads

http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=541768

Here is the one that I started when I bought mine a couple months ago. I love mine and am glad I decided to keep it. A lot or the guys that talk them down are the guys that forget to fill the reservoir up so be mindful of that. And with all motor don't use off brand oil, I only use Valvoline or Johnson/Evinrude 2 stroke oil and mine run great.

 

[vtskier]

Re: Need guidance on VRO threads

the motor is a 1987 johnson 120 vro

 

[Bob_VT]

Re: Need guidance on VRO threads

Here is a good tip............

The forum is NOT set up to allow 3 letter searches such as VRO however here is a great way to search.....

Go to google and in the search box type in iboats:vro ​Google will deliver the results.

Try it.

 

[seahorse5]

Re: Need guidance on VRO threads

This article should help you more than a bunch of people not familiar with the inner workings of the "VRO" posting how bad it is.

http://continuouswave.com/whaler/reference/VRO.html