Read somewhere to add a bronze tee to the thruhull. This allows you to easily check or clear a blockage while cruising and easily winterize the engine, in or out of the water. I keep a bronze plug screwed into top port except for winterizing. I have a short maybe 4' length of 3/4" hose w a ball valve. I place the hose in a 5 gallon bucket of antifreeze and suck the pink stuff through the water strainer, the pump, the heat exchanger, muffler and exhaust hose. The thermostat only throttles the fresh water, not the raw water, but I usually warm the engine to change the oil, do that first, and then winterize.
I like this setup because it allows me to connect a water hose in the spring to test run the engine prior to launch. I like to be sure she'll start before I have her picked up by the travel lift. I rig a second bucket under the exhaust and catch the antifreeze and use that to treat the sinks, ice box, bilge and bilge pumps. Chuck Resolute 1990 C&C 34R Broad Creek, Magothy River, Md ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Pennie via CnC-List" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: "John Pennie" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 8:42:28 PM Subject: Re: Stus-List Winterizing -- Raw Water Intake What am i missing here? For 20+ years all I’ve done, is close the engine raw water in, run the engine while pouring a couple of gallons of antifreeze in through the top of the raw water strainer. When it comes out pink at the exhaust end I stop. Once on the hard I open the raw water intake and let whatever remains in the intake hose drain. Is this a purely an in-water issue? John On Sep 28, 2015, at 8:27 PM, robert via CnC-List < [email protected] > wrote: David: I do the same on the 'hard'....remove the raw water hose in front of the raw water pump.....connect a hose to the pump to a 5 gallon bucket in the cockpit with a running fresh water hose into the bucket...flush the engine of salt water with fresh water .....heat the engine up.....stop engine.....empty bucket.....then fill bucket with 2 gallons of antifreeze (1 gal. undiluted + 1 gal water 50% - 50% mixture) .....run until antifreeze exists transom.....has worked that way for me for 10 years now. Pretty simple. Rob Abbott AZURA C&C 32 -84 Halifax. N.S. On 2015-09-28 2:56 PM, David Knecht via CnC-List wrote: <blockquote> My solution is simpler. I found a tubing size at the hardware store that fit snugly into the outside opening of the raw water intake. I got about 15’ piece, fill it with antifreeze and plug one end into the intake and the other into a bucket of antifreeze on deck. I then start the engine and wait for the antifreeze to be sucked through and come out the exit port on the transom. It takes surprisingly long, before the suction starts. I am presuming that means the thermostat controls the raw water flow through the heat exchanger, not the closed loop antifreeze flow? Dave Aries 1990 C&C 34+ New London, CT <blockquote> On Sep 28, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Edd Schillay via CnC-List < [email protected] > wrote: Listers, I’m thinking of adding an extra hose and a Y-Valve for the raw water intake to make winterizing and commissioning the engine easier — as things stand now, I need to close the through-hull, unfasten the hose clamps and pull on the hose in a tight little area. Has anyone done this? Any disadvantages? What type of valve did you use? All the best, Edd Edd M. Schillay Starship Enterprise C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B City Island, NY Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log _______________________________________________ Email address: [email protected] To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ Email address: [email protected] To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com </blockquote> _______________________________________________ Email address: [email protected] To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com </blockquote> _______________________________________________ Email address: [email protected] To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
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