On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:02:26 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 3/14/14, 11:37 AM, wrote:


You are probably better off to turn on the water,
pressurize the system, then turn it off, let it drain down and repeat
several times.

The other factor is the hose to the flush port is 5MM ID (less than a
quarter inch) so you are not really moving that much water anyway.

If you really want to flush the block, you need to remove the
thermostat, drop the foot and back flush through the thermostat hole
... but you are not going to do that very often.

These are wonderful, time-consuming suggestions for those who are
retired and have little of importance to do, sort of like painting a
ceiling and watching the paint dry.

I especially like the second suggestion.

When I trailered the boats home to wash them after using them, I hooked
one hose up to the fitting and washed the boat and other stuff off with
a second hose, a brush, and soap. When the boat was washed, I simply
turned off the hose to the flush fitting, removed the hose and secured
the fitting.

In the good old days of boating when I was a kid, my boat was kept on a
mooring, about 1000' offshore*, beyond the low tide sandbars. The motor
sat on the boat from late May through the end of September, and only saw
fresh water if I drove the boat to Milford, where my dad's marina was,
and I used a hose there to rinse off the motor's exterior. I used those
boats many days a week in the summer, probably about 75 hours a month,
and at the end of the season, my dad's shop winterized the engine. That
included dropping the lower unit and replacing the impeller. He usually
sold my little boat and motor over the winter, so I got to start anew
the following summer. Hey, it was tough, but someone had to do it.

Here's a photo of the beach where we "summered", but modern-day. A lot
of the old small cottages I remembered have been razed and replaced with
much fancier summer homes.

The tile topped mansion on the right was, when I was a kid, owned by the
Poli family of movie theater fame. The last I heard of it, it was
housing a nunnery. Seriously.

http://tinyurl.com/lzlwbsp


* If I wanted to use the boat, at high tide, I rowed out to it in a
dinghy. At low tide, the last sandbar in our cove left me about 200'
from the boat, so I simply swam out to it.


You are just so, so special, FOAD. That must be why you added the sparkles to FOAD. It's more
fitting for one of your unique 'specialness'.