On May 17, 9:04*pm, Vic Smith wrote:

Not knowing anything about OB cooling systems, a couple questions.
1. If the OB has a thermostat, can it be fully closed?
2. With the OB's you are familiar with, can the engine overheat even
when the pee hole has a stream?
I'm thinking Jay's new OB is designed to discharge all cooling water
through the thermostat, and if it's shut, no stream.
Electronic controls might make that a good way to manage engine
efficiency. *It might also have an overheat shutdown.
Though I know OB owners basically worship that peehole stream as the
Holy Grail of engine heat control, it may not so important with this
small engine. *

Yeah, I know,
"Paragraph 2.."CAUTION *Never operate your outboard
motor when there is no water coming out of the pilot water holes or
severe damage can result".

So it is contradictory. *Might have cribbed that from the manual of a
bigger engine. *In any case bad manual writing.
--Vic

Vic, thanks for a possible alternate explanation. I will ask my
Suzuki mechanic about that. And that bit about the "one-size-fits-
all" manual, I've run into that before where it seems like they got
the pages mixed up between two products and what you read doesn't even
apply to one. Thanks.

-Jay