Problems with my '97 Evinrude 150 Ficht

[stick]

OK...so I'm out last weekend at slightly faster than idle marking fish along breaklines. My motor sputters and dies. This motor has ALWAYS run smoothly. I started with the primer bulb, and it was soft, and it never has been. As I was squeezing it, I heard air sucking on the gas line. then I noticed the gas line was weather checked and it was pulling air. OK...it ran out of gas. I then started the kicker (on the same gas lines) and it sputtered until the air was out of the lines then it ran great. I cannot get the big motor started now. It turns over but no start. I believe that when I normally turn the key to on (without starting it), I hear the motor "whirr" a bit, and I believe this would be the fuel pump priming the fuel injection system. I do not hear that now...so I'm guessing that the fuel pump went out.

Can anyone confirm this or offer any other suggestions?

[Goldenboy]

I had a 2004 200hp Evinrude Direct Inject with those same symptoms; fuel lift pump needed to be replaced.

[marine_man]

If your fuel line was cracked, allowing the pump to pull air, it wouldn't surprise me if the pump went as well.

marine_man