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Re: F36 Overheating both engines
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:11 am
by aaronbocknek
in years past, i've used a shop vac as a blow out device by attaching the 'exhaust' portion of the vac to the intake hose using the 'seaflush' system. i picked it up at the annapolis boat show roughly 3 years ago and i've been very please with it for both blowing out the through hulls and winterizing. here is a link to their site.
http://seaflush.com/
Re: F36 Overheating both engines
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:04 pm
by rickalan35
Hi - I had both of my engines overheating simultaneously. Turns out weeds were jamming the intakes. Last winter my marina replaced both engine intake screens with one size larger, also increased diameter of the intake hoses plus installed strainers. No overheating now.
Seems to be no similar problem with the Walter V-Drives inlets jamming up (at least at this point)
I remove weeds from the strainers regularly. Late this spring, I did the same thing with the genny re: increased intake capacity.
The amount of water running through the exhausts during the overheating appeared normal, but obviously wasn't. - Rick