Dave 205
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- Mar 15, 2011
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- Boat Info
- 2006 205 Sport, Shorelander Trailer. Towed by 2012 Ford F-150 Supercrew 5.0 with factory tow package
- Engines
- Mercruiser 5.0 220 HP Carb w/ Alpha 1 Drive
Yeah, I think you just gotta bite the bullet and redo.
Scrap the bucket method. It's not hard to do it the right way and really doesn't take long.
You won't need to run the engine at all doing it this way (other than "fogging", if wanted to to do that)
If you've already done the fogging, this is about a 10 minute job.
-- Drain everything - poke the holes to make sure there's no build of sediment
-- Remove the hoses from the t-stat housing and pour pink into them until it backs up in the hose
1) Block hose (big one)
2) Intake water hose (it's the odd sized one) This one will drip out through the water intake on the outdrive
3) Exhaust water hoses. These will drip out through the exhaust ports on the bottom of the transom plate. Check them out - they're about the size of two fingers.
5 gallons will be more than enough to do all this. Now you are guaranteed to have pink everywhere.
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Wow, this is the slick way of doing this. With cold weather finally starting in earnest, and some other projects finished, I started back on the boat. Drained the engine, poured new pink down the block hose until it came out the t-stat housing.
Dennis, since this saga started when I didn't pull the t-stat and ran pink through the muffs, the intake hose should be good since straight pink came up this?
Same argument with the exhaust hoses - anything bypassing a closed / partial closed t-stat would have been straight pink?
For reference next year, I've got four smaller hoses coming out of the t-stat housing, two go down, and two go to box shaped towers on each side of the engine. (I need to get a decent schematic to start identifying these things). Are all four of these the exhaust hoses you are referring to?
Thanks again.