jarwood
New Member
Guys,
As I was going through my normal winterization process, Change the oil and filter. Hooked up water supply with muffs ran until I reached operating temperature. Hooked up portable fuel tank with mercury recomended fogging solution. Ran engine back up to operating temp. Normaly I just drain the water out of the system. This year I used one of those Camco Anti freeze kits. http://www.boatersworld.com/product/178050035.htm?bct=t13004951
The engine was running fine temp around 172 when I switched over and run the -50 freezeban everything was fine. When the Anti freeze in the Camco kit was about 5" from the bottom my engine temp got to about 180 when I saw this I was starting to shut down the engine, the alarm went off and the temp went to 188. I had shut the engine down by the time the alarm went off. Then my temp reading was 195.
Has anyone had issues like this before with this system? Did I do any damage to my engine? The only thing I can figure out is that maybe it was having a hard time pulling the antifreeze through the hose since there is no water pressure from the hose. I was watching everything close and I could not believe how fast the engine temp went up, any suggestions?
As I was going through my normal winterization process, Change the oil and filter. Hooked up water supply with muffs ran until I reached operating temperature. Hooked up portable fuel tank with mercury recomended fogging solution. Ran engine back up to operating temp. Normaly I just drain the water out of the system. This year I used one of those Camco Anti freeze kits. http://www.boatersworld.com/product/178050035.htm?bct=t13004951
The engine was running fine temp around 172 when I switched over and run the -50 freezeban everything was fine. When the Anti freeze in the Camco kit was about 5" from the bottom my engine temp got to about 180 when I saw this I was starting to shut down the engine, the alarm went off and the temp went to 188. I had shut the engine down by the time the alarm went off. Then my temp reading was 195.
Has anyone had issues like this before with this system? Did I do any damage to my engine? The only thing I can figure out is that maybe it was having a hard time pulling the antifreeze through the hose since there is no water pressure from the hose. I was watching everything close and I could not believe how fast the engine temp went up, any suggestions?