The elbow on our Perkins 4-236 was aluminum and factory original. It was in fine condition when removed after 20 years. Only replaced it because I needed to inject the cooling water into the top of the elbow instead of the side thereby gaining 1.5" of space for a genny sound shield.
Philip McConnell Tayana 52, USSV Gryphon Richmond, CA Philip & Marilyn wrote: > I am finally gong to replace the exhaust elbows on my Beta Marine 14 hp > diesels. They are full of pin holes (and larger some dime sized) and I am > getting tires of mixing up JB weld to patch them. Beta says they no longer > sell the Stainless ones as they had "issues" with them, and now offer them in > cast aluminum at $122. ea. Cast aluminum sounds dodgie to me, what with > dissimilar metals and such. Any one had any experience with exhaust elbows of > this material? > Philip > > Philip & Marilyn Lange > AE4OV & KD4JRC > ORYOKI > Witness 35 Catamaran > There is no reason to have a plan if you are not going to pretend to follow > it > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > Liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardnow.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardnow.org > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardnow.org To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardnow.org The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
