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Winterize water hook up for raw water cooled mercs
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Winterize water hook up for raw water cooled mercs
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Re: Winterize water hook up for raw water cooled mercs
I have a seaflush kit. Basically some plastic funnels made to fit into the strainers. It works well for winterizing the engines, genny and a/c.
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Re: Winterize water hook up for raw water cooled mercs
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Re: Winterize water hook up for raw water cooled mercs
Viper wrote:Source of the post Do you have strainers? If not, you can install a set of these:
https://www.groco.net/ssc-1250
No strainers on engines only on gen and air.......that piece looks nice , I like that it is bronze, only thing is the quick fitting, be nice if that had a valve before the fitting for positive isolation. My goal here is to plumb both engine winterize/flush connections to an easy accessible location for me and my crappy back.
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Re: Winterize water hook up for raw water cooled mercs
By the way, the above setup also acts as an emergency back up bilge pump system when you're taking on huge amounts of water as a result of a bad impact. If you set it up with a three way seacock, and the pick-up hose lying in the bilge, your engines will act as very large bilge pumps drawing cooling water from the bilge in hopes of keeping you afloat while you head for shore. The three way seacock or add-on valve if the same size as your raw water intake hose will allow your engines to draw full volume. At 1-1/4" or bigger, that's a lot of water. Some vessels will have at least one engine set up this way.
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Re: Winterize water hook up for raw water cooled mercs
http://www.marinecatalogue.ca/index.html#376
Any marina can get them from Paynes who is a distributor
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