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  1. #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by deerfield View Post
    DOC - Excellent observation and suggestion. I will do that. Thanks. - Deerfield
    Deer, you are the one who came up with the great idea, I'm just adding input or my .02 to help others as you are...
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    run your engine after you change your oil
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    That is a great idea You must have done it before - NO?

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  3. #23
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    nope , never done it, have just spent a bunch of time looking at that little blue hose........but i winterize my seadoos and you have to clamp a pile of hoses during antifreeze winterization.....and it seemed like a simple solution to a problem....almost too simple at first... and if you come up with enough ideas eventually one is going to make alot of sense....... remember my cork idea that i think has been my simplest idea to date....maybe i will show you guys how I overwinterize my boat someday
    Last edited by DOCDRS; 09-20-2010 at 09:05 PM.
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  4. #24
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    Yup mine will be clamped for the process....... Great thougt I just never thought of it Thanx!!!

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    I didn't knew the raw water pump was strong enought to pump liquid from the ground up to the freeboard... I would have been afraid of toasting the rubber impeller.
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    Its a positive displacement pump so it generates vacuum.
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  7. #27
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    You convinced me, this year I'll winterise it myself.
    Last edited by MartinCaron; 09-24-2010 at 10:28 AM.
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  8. #28
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    I almost fried an impeller trying to sip water from a bassin on the ground to the water intake... It did not come close to succeed.

    I ended up running the motor with the fake-a-lake for 15 minutes then drop the bypass hose from the pump to a tank (inside the boat..) filled with 8 gallons of -50° anti-freeze.
    I drained the 2 sides of the block + the 2 manifolds and I'm now 110% sure the thermostat did open as it took a good 5 minute to sip the 8 gallons of anti freese an the motor became realy hot because the antifreeze was at room teperature.
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  9. #29
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    That's similar to how I have always done it. I always drain a little from each side of the block to make sure the antifreeze circulated through the block.

  10. #30
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    sometimes temperature drop to minus 30 in my part of the country, so winterizing is taken seriously
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