YeOldeStonecat
Active Member
- Jun 10, 2018
- 332
- Boat Info
- '97 300 DA "Me-Shell"
- Engines
- Twin 5.7 V-Drive
The '97 we recently purchased, engines around 600 hours on 'em, the engines 'n their bilge area are a bit dirtier than I'd like. I'm used to hosing my motorcycles 'n cars/trucks down at least once a year with good engine degreaser...but those are meant to be quite water tight all throughout since they can go in the rain. Even though a boat is in the water, inboards...I'm not sure if they'll tolerate getting as wet as a car or truck engine area will.
Would love to hose down the engines well, intake manifold 'n valve covers, and find a narrow bristle brush to get some biodegradable bilge soap and scrub the bilge floor 'n sides well.
Eyeballing it this past weekend, one area to avoid is the battery charger...that's up high on the front of the engine bilge, to the port side of the battery row.
I'd tape off the plastic air intake/flame arrestor cover...I'm sure some water might drip through that mount hole in the middle.
I wouldn't plan on getting more than 6 inches or so of water built up down there, likely less.
And find a narrow fitting for a wet vac, since the outer sides of the outer stringers let water sit there, it doesn't appear to flow down to the center where the bilge pump can pick that up.
Would love to hose down the engines well, intake manifold 'n valve covers, and find a narrow bristle brush to get some biodegradable bilge soap and scrub the bilge floor 'n sides well.
Eyeballing it this past weekend, one area to avoid is the battery charger...that's up high on the front of the engine bilge, to the port side of the battery row.
I'd tape off the plastic air intake/flame arrestor cover...I'm sure some water might drip through that mount hole in the middle.
I wouldn't plan on getting more than 6 inches or so of water built up down there, likely less.
And find a narrow fitting for a wet vac, since the outer sides of the outer stringers let water sit there, it doesn't appear to flow down to the center where the bilge pump can pick that up.