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Manifold failure, hydrolock :-(

On 20 Sep 2003 03:16:54 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:

Back ten days early. Raw water cooled exhaust manifold, pronounced OK not long
ago, not so OK after all. Our well mannered boat always takes care of us.
When the tranny went out a couple of years ago, we were behind the breakwater
and upwind of the fuel dock. Soft landing.

After running perfectly for a week, the engine shut down several seconds after
startup while we were still secured to a dock. Pulling the injectors revealed
water in #1 cylinder, and the engine will not quite rotate 360 when cranked by
hand in either direction. Obviously got water in through the manifold, and the
piston came up on a substance that would not compress. Two potentially
major-nuisance failures, and both occured in lucky circumstances.

Oh well, the old engine had 4000 hours on it, anyway.

We had a spectacular week. A little bit of unfortunate bad luck, but a string
of glorious days preceding.

Glad the failure didn't happen under worse circumstances.
If she was my boat, it would have happened 100 yards from the
power-plant dam, in a 30 knot wind.

)

Hope the failure didn't do major damage.
If you can't go boating, I get no stories!

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Good luck with it,
noah

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