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Raw Water Engine Cooling - Need a Strainer?
From recent posts, you can tell I'm on thinkin about the engine water
cooling system. RECAP: I've got an inboard that is raw water cooled. The pump is a gear type. The thru-hull is a scoop shape with somewhat of a strainer on it. It looks basically like this...only bronze. http://www.forespar.com/catalog/plumbing/scoop.htm Question: Is this enough to keep junk like plastic bags from clogging my water intake, or do I need something else? My guess is that this is enough; that most things will either be big enough to just pass on by and anything small enough to get in will be chopped up by the meshed bronze gears in the pump. Thanks, Gary |
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Raw Water Engine Cooling - Need a Strainer?
That should be fine. Do you have a gear type?? or does is it a flexible
impeller pump?. If it is a true positive displacement gear type, then small solids could jam it. However I have never seen a true gear type raw water pump. Maybe some larger boats (ships?) may use them but I don't know about that. So if it is a "gear" pump you may need some thing else but If it is the normal flexilble impeller raw water pump , you should be fine with what you have as the size of solids passing that type strainer intake should pass the pump too. -- Ron White My boatbuilding website is: www.concentric.net/~knotreel |
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Raw Water Engine Cooling - Need a Strainer?
Thanks Ron. Yes, this is a true gear pump. A picture is here, on the second page: http://tinyurl.com/spsv |
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Raw Water Engine Cooling - Need a Strainer?
Wow! what a project I didn't know that we were dealing with and antique. I
was doubtful that you had a gear pump but one picture ( actually 93) is worth 93,000 words.Apparently your pump is a gear drive as well as being a gear pump. I would hate to guess what one like that would cost today. I guess the flexible impeller pump was still on the drawing board back then. Well, as far as a strainer, it might be a two edged sword. If it got clogged and water flow was too little to cool the engine, and there were no alarms well that could be bad. If it were me, I might tend to trust the rather beefy gear drive pump to just chew up anything that is light enough to float. Things that would likely damage that pump are more likely on the bottom? But then in the final analysis I don't know what you should do. Either way there are risks. The boats I am familiar with that have sea strainers are mostly offshore boats and have high temp alarms and often run in sea grass like Sargasso. One of my old boats didn't have a sea strainer and spun and impeller after getting fouled with grass. But I think mere grass would be no match for your "rolling mill pump". Anyway, strainer-no strainer, I it may depend on personal preference in this case more that the usual considerations? Keep up the good work. -- Ron White My boatbuilding website is: www.concentric.net/~knotreel |
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PS: Ron, Nice site. Any photos of the work when it was in progress?? |
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Raw Water Engine Cooling - Need a Strainer?
I'd sure put a strainer.
"Gary Warner" wrote in message ... From recent posts, you can tell I'm on thinkin about the engine water cooling system. RECAP: I've got an inboard that is raw water cooled. The pump is a gear type. The thru-hull is a scoop shape with somewhat of a strainer on it. It looks basically like this...only bronze. http://www.forespar.com/catalog/plumbing/scoop.htm Question: Is this enough to keep junk like plastic bags from clogging my water intake, or do I need something else? My guess is that this is enough; that most things will either be big enough to just pass on by and anything small enough to get in will be chopped up by the meshed bronze gears in the pump. Thanks, Gary |
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Raw Water Engine Cooling - Need a Strainer?
I agree with Keith. If you put a strainer on, I think you'll be surprised
by the stuff that gets caught: bird feathers, seaweed, little chunks of wood, etc. To me it's like running a car engine without an air filter. "Keith" wrote in message ... I'd sure put a strainer. "Gary Warner" wrote in message ... From recent posts, you can tell I'm on thinkin about the engine water cooling system. RECAP: I've got an inboard that is raw water cooled. The pump is a gear type. The thru-hull is a scoop shape with somewhat of a strainer on it. It looks basically like this...only bronze. http://www.forespar.com/catalog/plumbing/scoop.htm Question: Is this enough to keep junk like plastic bags from clogging my water intake, or do I need something else? My guess is that this is enough; that most things will either be big enough to just pass on by and anything small enough to get in will be chopped up by the meshed bronze gears in the pump. Thanks, Gary |
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Raw Water Engine Cooling - Need a Strainer?
Gary Warner wrote:
Question: Is this enough to keep junk like plastic bags from clogging my water intake, or do I need something else? It is cheap insurance and good practice to place a strainer between the seacock and the raw water pump. The strainers shown here by Groco are excellent for your application as they allow visual inspection and are easily cleaned: http://www.depcopump.com/catalog106/PAGE56.PDF Rick |
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Raw Water Engine Cooling - Need a Strainer?
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:17:00 GMT, Rick
wrote: It is cheap insurance and good practice to place a strainer between the seacock and the raw water pump. The strainers shown here by Groco are excellent for your application as they allow visual inspection and are easily cleaned: http://www.depcopump.com/catalog106/PAGE56.PDF ================================================== ===== I agree with the inboard strainer recommendations. My boat has Perko strainers. They work well and are easy to clean. http://www.cgedwards.com/Perko/pko21.html |
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Raw Water Engine Cooling - Need a Strainer?
Strainer is NICE TO HAVE with a raw water cooled engine. There are some tight
cooling water passages in the engine. IMO, it's essential with FWC to keep stuff out of the heat exchanger(s). Even with positive displacement gear pump some debris ground up by the pump will get past but much less than with a flexible impeller type pump. For me it would depend upon only one thing. Do you have space in the bilge to install and SERVICE a strainer? You'll want to be certain you have sufficient room to operate the seacock if you opt for a strainer. Butch |
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