On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:36:17 -0500, Dave Brown wrote:

loonfellow@lakeside. wrote:

pump finally stropped draining water, but the one on the
engine water pump kept on and on and on...to the point
that I don't see how the whole system could hold that
much water. Could it still be coming as I drain it out? If so,
what to do about that?

Is the boat still in the water? If so then yes it will keep siphoning
from the lake.

Then I guess I do need to fill it with anti-freeze and tighten
everything back up or it will fill back up with lake water?

Also, somewhere I got the idea that it's good to open the
system where the thermostat would go and fill it with
anti-freeze, to take care of pockets where water could
still be trapped and maybe even to keep gaskets etc
from drying out. Is that something I should do? If so,
would a 50/50 mix be good enough?

You should find what you need he

http://brownsmarina.com/tech-winter-inboard.html

loonfellow@lakeside. wrote:

Then I guess I do need to fill it with anti-freeze and tighten
everything back up or it will fill back up with lake water?

Are you leaving it in the water for the winter? Then there's other
things you need to do...




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Regards,
Dave Brown
Brown's Marina Ltd
http://brownsmarina.com/

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:22:25 -0500, Dave Brown wrote:

loonfellow@lakeside. wrote:

Then I guess I do need to fill it with anti-freeze and tighten
everything back up or it will fill back up with lake water?

Are you leaving it in the water for the winter? Then there's other
things you need to do...

Yes, I'm leaving it in the water. I'm in GA though, so there's no
need to worry about the lake freezing. I do need to worry about
the motor filling up with lake water, or even filling to a certain
point though. It seems that if I fill it with anti-freeze, or even
50/50 then it would eventually become a pretty even mix of
water and anti-freeze throughout the whole system which would
be full and allow no more lake water to come in, prevent any
pockets of just water which could freeze, and keep gaskets
etc from drying out.

loonfellow@lakeside. wrote:

Yes, I'm leaving it in the water. I'm in GA though, so there's no
need to worry about the lake freezing. I do need to worry about
the motor filling up with lake water, or even filling to a certain
point though. It seems that if I fill it with anti-freeze, or even
50/50 then it would eventually become a pretty even mix of
water and anti-freeze throughout the whole system which would
be full and allow no more lake water to come in, prevent any
pockets of just water which could freeze, and keep gaskets
etc from drying out.

What you may need to worry about is your sea cocks freezing and
splitting though. You need to isolate the engine from the sea cocks and
then winterize the engine, then you need to fill the sea cocks with oil
to save them (and your boat).



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Regards,
Dave Brown
Brown's Marina Ltd
http://brownsmarina.com/