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AADIVER
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Initially Posted - 04/01/2006 :  13:51:13  Show Profile  Visit AADIVER's Homepage
This is how I flush my engine. I push the bucket down and over the shaft with my boat hook, lower the engine, fill the bucket with fresh water, run the engine out of gas, then retrieve the bucket with the boat hook. Since it's full of water, I have a line on the end I snag, pull up, and empty. Or you can leave the shaft in the fresh water bucket 'til next trip.
Frank Farmer
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tinob
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Response Posted - 04/02/2006 :  13:37:20  Show Profile
Neat trick Frank but why the need to do so more than once a year, unless you sail in the Great Salt Lake. My last motor (sailed in salt water) went it's entire life being flushed once a year, from '92 to 2005. My new Nissan sits running in a bucket of fresh water in the barn waiting to go into service in a week or two. At the end of the season it will come home and be run in a buckey of fresh water until next season. Why make more work than need be...or in the words of the venerable track coach, JUMBO ELLIOT, (Villanova), "K I S S", in response to an overly zealous trackster responding to his query, "what's your workout like", ( yessir that's where the kiss quote originated). I was there!

Val on the hard DAGNABIT # 3936 Patchogue, N.Y.

My apologies for that last sentence. Hurt me writing it as much as I am sure it was for you reading it.
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tinob
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Response Posted - 04/02/2006 :  13:44:50  Show Profile
Yo, Frank, I just recognized your solar stern light. That's neat I bought a bunch from one of the on line stores for the driveway. They work well, so far. But to put one on the boat that's thinking outside the box.....

Val on the hard DAGNABIT # 3936 Patchogue, N.Y.
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River Harley
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Response Posted - 04/02/2006 :  13:56:08  Show Profile
Would anyone venture a guess as to the "average" motor life of a saltwater run, well maintained, once-a-year flushed motor as compared to that of an after-every-use flushed motor? I would be interested in knowing the conventional wisdom on this. I flush my motor "after every meal," and would certainly prefer to do it once a year if I could do so without compromising the life of the motor. My intuition tells me it's not to be. I've been told that saltwater use reduces the life of an outboard motor by half. Any further thoughts on this by anyone?

River Harley
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AADIVER
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Response Posted - 04/02/2006 :  18:21:07  Show Profile  Visit AADIVER's Homepage
Yeah, flushing after every run's a bit of an overkill. Better, I think, would be monthly with a product like Salt-Away.
I mounted the solar unit 'cause the engine blocks some of the starboard running light from anyone to my port at night.
The cleat beside it is for towing my dinghy.
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britinusa
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Response Posted - 04/02/2006 :  23:31:36  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
We flush the same day as we pull the boat after each trip (or should I say 'voyage' )
I don't like the idea of salt drying out in the tubes between launches.

2 weeks to next launch.

Paul
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welshoff
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Response Posted - 04/03/2006 :  11:35:17  Show Profile
FYI - I just picked up this engine flush adaptor from Honda. I plan to flush regularly now - after each outing. It's used with engine shut off.

Hooked up to the hose.


Close up of adapter - just screws into side of engine - turn on hose.
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