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Bogger
Bogger of the GBCA
Anyone know anything about winterizing boats with a closed loop cooling system filled with antifreeze?
Mine is a 5.8L OMC Cobra. I have a coolant resevoir and am baffled. As I understand the only area I should be pulling fresh water into is my exhaust manifolds. I found the 2 plugs at the rear of the mannifolds and removed them, this released a small amount of very dirty silty water.
One thing I don't undertand is that I have a hose from my resevoir overflow (a 3 way T) into the front of each manifold... how can I have water and antifreeze in the manifold without diluting my coolant???...however when I blow into the hose which enters the front of the manifold I hear gurgling but it doesn't seem to push any fluid out of the drains..is there something separatinting the systems internally?????
I guess I'm in the same boat as the original poster, I don't really know enough about the system, I had thought I would pour antifreeze down into the lines into the mannifold but I'm thinking maybe they already have coolant in them if so how do I get anitfreeze into the area I removed the plugs from.
Apparently I don't have to do anything with my engine block due to the fact that i have a closed loop cooling system..
Not sure if anything anyone says can help me but usually writing things out helps me to understand.
I can't start the boat because the starter is pooched otherwise I would drop the leg into a 15 gallon tup of antifreeze and fire it up... might be cheating but it's easy....If I can get the old starter out and a new one in I might still do this but realistically we are looking at temps below 0C this weekend and I'd prefer to just put it awy and deal with the starter/oil change etc.. come spring.
Might see if I can take it into RPS and work along side the mechanic as he does it.
Mine is a 5.8L OMC Cobra. I have a coolant resevoir and am baffled. As I understand the only area I should be pulling fresh water into is my exhaust manifolds. I found the 2 plugs at the rear of the mannifolds and removed them, this released a small amount of very dirty silty water.
One thing I don't undertand is that I have a hose from my resevoir overflow (a 3 way T) into the front of each manifold... how can I have water and antifreeze in the manifold without diluting my coolant???...however when I blow into the hose which enters the front of the manifold I hear gurgling but it doesn't seem to push any fluid out of the drains..is there something separatinting the systems internally?????
I guess I'm in the same boat as the original poster, I don't really know enough about the system, I had thought I would pour antifreeze down into the lines into the mannifold but I'm thinking maybe they already have coolant in them if so how do I get anitfreeze into the area I removed the plugs from.
Apparently I don't have to do anything with my engine block due to the fact that i have a closed loop cooling system..
Not sure if anything anyone says can help me but usually writing things out helps me to understand.
I can't start the boat because the starter is pooched otherwise I would drop the leg into a 15 gallon tup of antifreeze and fire it up... might be cheating but it's easy....If I can get the old starter out and a new one in I might still do this but realistically we are looking at temps below 0C this weekend and I'd prefer to just put it awy and deal with the starter/oil change etc.. come spring.
Might see if I can take it into RPS and work along side the mechanic as he does it.
