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ben111
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 13 Oct 2012 : 10:39:06
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soon be time to lay up the boat for the first winter since buying her.question is what do i need to do to protect the inboard ford petrol engine?,i would be grateful for any advice.
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Deano
United Kingdom
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Posted - 13 Oct 2012 : 11:00:49
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Turn off the sea cock. Take off the water strainer lid. Mix a litre of anti freeze into 3 litres of water. Start the engine and pour the mix into the filter housing. When it starts to come out of the exhaust, or when you run out, stop the engine.
Replace the strainer lid.
Job done.
Dean - Boating on the Great Ouse.
Freeman 30 "Silver Gem"
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ben111
United Kingdom
35 Posts |
Posted - 13 Oct 2012 : 14:58:54
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thanks dean
as you may have guessed i'm not mechanically minded so all i have to do is find the sea cock & the water strainer
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df
United Kingdom
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Posted - 13 Oct 2012 : 15:02:08
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You realy need to know where they are all the time in case of blockages or leaks, a split hose can easily sink a boat if you don't know where the seacock is.
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cliveshep
Thailand
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Posted - 14 Oct 2012 : 19:46:33
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Guys, you're being a bit unfair to Ben - you might at least point him in the right direction or next year he'll be back on in the Spring with a cup full of woes and leaky plumbing.
Ben - Deano is spot on. Your engine might be either direct cooled or indirect cooled. Either way it sucks up river water through a stop tap, the "sea-cock", which usually has a large tube attached with a screw cap on the top. Undoing this reveals a mesh tube inside - the strainer - often full of leaves, bits of weed, general detritus. The assembly is bolted to the bottom of your boat somewhere near the engine and has a hose rising to the water pump on the engine. From that water may very well be circulated through various heat exchangers or simply on direct cooled engines just through the engine alone - and is in ALL cases injected into the exhaust elbow where it cools the exhaust gases.
That is why marine exhausts spit gas and water.
Trevor - I ask your forgiveness here but I really don't want to reproduce all the techie stuff over again so I'm just going to post a link for Ben to the DC forum "Technical issues" where I've done four technical papers covering winterising boats, including inboards as we are getting to that time of year again.
Ben - go look here:- http://www.dawncraftowners.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=3
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df
United Kingdom
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Posted - 14 Oct 2012 : 21:26:49
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Not being unfair at all, we can all give advise based on a boat boat we have never seen and when it comes to an issue it will be wrong and will sink or we can give enough advise to let the owner know he needs to know more and seek local advice ie. someone that can look in the engine bay and point out the seacock rather than the billions of people on the internet that like to give ill informed advice (or wikipedia as we like to call it), knowing what you don't know is more valuble than knowing what an unknown source has told you.
As reliable as this forum usually is you still have to take anything from a stranger with a pinch of salt, and we don't come much stranger.....
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