FWIW, I use a little "hose rig" that makes winterizing the engine very easy and is a great thing to keep on any boat. It consists of a short 4 ft stiff hose (match your engine's intake gose) with shutoff ball valve and a barb fitting. Replace the ell at your engine intake thruhull with a threaded female tee. The hose going to the engine gets plumbed to the side of the tee leaving the a port arranged straight up so you can see through the opening and thru the thru-hull valve when open, outside the boat.
To winterize the engine, in the water or out, close the thru-hull valve, remove a plug in the top of the tee, install the barb fitting to attach "the hose rig" and connect the other end to a garden hose connected to city water. Run the engine to flush the heat exchanger and warm it up. When it's up to temperature, stop the engine, stick the rig into a bucket of antifreeze, restart engine and run until pink comes out the exhaust. The intake hose, the strainer, the engine, and the exhaust hose and muffler is then protected. Then change the oil while hot and the filter and she's ready for the winter. The rig works well if you are storing the boat in the water also using the same method. To ready for the season, reconnect the rig and using city water again, test run the engine prior to launch to be sure all is well. Once satisfied all is well, remove the rig and replace the barb fitting with a threaded plug in the top of the tee. Other benefits; I can use the rig to test run the engine out of the water. If I am cruising and ever suspect the intake is blocked, I can remove the plug and rod out the thru-hull valve. Chuck Resolute 1990 C&C 34R Atlantic City, NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Coleman" <colt...@verizon.net> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 2:15:31 PM Subject: Re: Stus-List winterizing engine That is definitely a better alternative to what I do, it's just that my strainer is behind the engine, and if I did that I would be disemboweled by the alternator! Bill Coleman C&C 39 -----Original Message----- From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Eric Frank Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 10:47 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List winterizing engine A possible simplification of Bill's Groco Strainer solution? For the last couple of years I have just taken the lid off the Groco Strainer and poured in antifreeze as the water pump pumped it out. Needs to stay full to avoid running the pump dry, but that is easy to do just by watching the level. In a minute or so an entire gallon has gone through, I kill the engine and am done. Is this procedure not good? Eric Frank Cat'sPaw > Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:03:21 -0500 > From: "Bill Coleman" <colt...@verizon.net> > To: <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > Subject: Re: Stus-List winterizing engine > Message-ID: <02ff01cee14a$a98fb4c0$fcaf1e40$@net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I have seen that done, so it must work. > > Two other suggestions, > > Replace your hose with a Silicone hose, ( I said I was a fan), these come > right off and have no memory, kind of like me. > > Or, What I did was buy an extra plastic lid for my Groco Strainer, the put a > hole in the middle and put a hose adapter into it. Screw a short hose on it, > then I poke a funnel into the hose. I start my engine, go below and pour ? > of a gallon of antifreeze then turn the engine off. > > 5 gallons, are you serial? I don?t use that much to winterize my whole > boat! > > > > Bill Coleman > > C&C 39 animated_favicon1 _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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