winterizing mercruiser?
 

"Chad" wrote in message
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"P Fritz" wrote in message
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D&LBusch wrote:
Do I need to drain the block and hoses if I'm using one of those coolant
kits that attaches to the muffs on the outdrive? It would appear not.
since it is sucking in the Anti Freeze and will displace any water left
in the block. Thanks in advance. David

what I do is after my motors are warmed I pull the plugs to drain the
water and any sediment that you have sucked up. then reinstall the plugs
and suck up 5 gal of the pink stuff and fogg then go the extra mile and
pull the plugs to drain the pink stuff. I have done this for 8 years in
northern Iowa with no problems.


When it gets cold. I drain the hoses to the heat exchanger and drain the
manifold elbow.

winterizing mercruiser?
 

Calif Bill wrote:
"Chad" wrote in message
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"P Fritz" wrote in message
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D&LBusch wrote:

Do I need to drain the block and hoses if I'm using one of those coolant
kits that attaches to the muffs on the outdrive? It would appear not.
since it is sucking in the Anti Freeze and will displace any water left
in the block. Thanks in advance. David

what I do is after my motors are warmed I pull the plugs to drain the
water and any sediment that you have sucked up. then reinstall the plugs
and suck up 5 gal of the pink stuff and fogg then go the extra mile and
pull the plugs to drain the pink stuff. I have done this for 8 years in
northern Iowa with no problems.



When it gets cold. I drain the hoses to the heat exchanger and drain the
manifold elbow.


Yeah......but cold to you is what? abotu 50?

We get to walk on water around here ;-(

winterizing mercruiser?
 

"P Fritz" wrote in message
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Calif Bill wrote:
"Chad" wrote in message
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"P Fritz" wrote in message
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D&LBusch wrote:

Do I need to drain the block and hoses if I'm using one of those
coolant kits that attaches to the muffs on the outdrive? It would
appear not. since it is sucking in the Anti Freeze and will displace
any water left in the block. Thanks in advance. David

what I do is after my motors are warmed I pull the plugs to drain the
water and any sediment that you have sucked up. then reinstall the plugs
and suck up 5 gal of the pink stuff and fogg then go the extra mile and
pull the plugs to drain the pink stuff. I have done this for 8 years in
northern Iowa with no problems.



When it gets cold. I drain the hoses to the heat exchanger and drain the
manifold elbow.
Yeah......but cold to you is what? abotu 50?

We get to walk on water around here ;-(

No we get down to the 20's sometimes in the winter. A few years ago, buddy
lost the engine on his boat to freeze and maybe 20 years ago, big cold snap,
prior to Global Warming and I had to run my pool for about 2 weeks 24 hours
a day to keep it from freezing thickly. Neighbor below me had a couple of
inches of ice. I do get some thing ice islands during the winter. I live
over the coastal hills in a small valley (Livermore Valley) and we are
colder in the winter and hotter in the summer than the bay side of the
hills. The hotter part is why I live on this side of the hills. Grew up 10
blocks from SF bay, and the only swimming pool at a house near me was at the
Chancellor of UC Berkeley's house. And the tax payers paid for heating it.