Has the boat always been in salt water?

 

As far as I know it has (I'm not the original owner). It's been stored out of the water on a lift - but operated in salt water for at least the past 10 years.

 

If that's the case. I wouldn't bother.

 

Okay - why not?

 

Scale and rust in the block will constantly clog the heat exchanger.

 

You might consider adding a fresh water flush to your system. IE like this https://easyflowflushing.com/product/easy-flow-flushing-kit/ I'm not advocating their system but just the idea. I added something to my old 310 and found that as long as I was religious about flushing after use it seemed to eliminate crude / rust coming from the discharges when I started up the motors.

 

Thanks - I've looked into that a bit. What I've learned so far is that the Alpha 1 series outdrives that we have are not compatible with these type of quick connect flush systems, because the pump system impellers are in the outdrives themselves. Which means I've got to flush the motors from outside the boat (bad luck for me). At least that's what I've been told so far.

 

You would be correct, you would need muffs on the engine to do it.

 

I’m another vote for don’t bother, I’d just flush after use. The salt has already gotten into everything and they’re already 22 years old. I’d definitely go FWC on the repower though