Wash my engines down?

belliswood

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Nov 21, 2011
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Colonial Beach, VA
Boat Info
1996 370 SUNDANCER
NAME: DAWG HAUS 3
Engines
7.4 EFI 454
V-DRIVES
My bilge is very dirty. I have dogs and the hair is getting down on the engines an in the bilge area. Can I take my hose and wash every thing down? I now that the spark arrester will need bagged but are there any other areas I need to cover or try to avoid spraying.

Barry
 
My bilge is very dirty. I have dogs and the hair is getting down on the engines an in the bilge area. Can I take my hose and wash every thing down? I now that the spark arrester will need bagged but are there any other areas I need to cover or try to avoid spraying.

Barry

Alternator, starter, distributor....
 
Spraying the engines with water could cause problems if any water gets into the connectors. Be very careful, use a fine spray mist, not the super soaker setting.

Maybe a better way to clean the engines themselves of the dog hair is to use compressed air or a shop vac.
 
Make sure you clean out the bilge pump strainers if you have a lot of dog hair down there. (Don't keep your dogs in the bilge either. Let them stay up where its cooler ;))
 

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