On Nov 20, 2024, at 11:36 AM, Brian Davis via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
Hahahahahaha. Exactly
I have. It is the same stuff they give you for colonoscopy prep. Not that it tasted good
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Doesn't mean it's good for the environment. Would you drink it?
Airports spray it on airplanes by the thousands of gallons and no one is catching all that!
What's wrong with the pink stuff? I though it was supposed to be biodegradable....?
1985 C&C 37 CB; Ohio River, Mile 596;
Richard N. Bush Law Offices
Louisville, Kentucky 40220
On Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 09:53:22 AM EST, CHARLES SCHEAFFER via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
Your method saves buying chemicals, and saves poluting the environment, but the old method of sticking the engine's water intake hose into a bucket of antifreeze
and running the engine until the pink stuff exits the exhaust is slightly more thorough and less crawling around. Our muffler has no drain.
I use two buckets. One has a hose bibb fitting at the bottom and a short hose with a ball valve allows me to close the valve before starting the engine. The
second bucket, is what I use to scrub the deck and it gets hung by rope tied to the stern rail. It gets positioned under the transom and next to the exhaust so it can be swung under the exhaust to catch the pink stuff when it bright pink. I let the seawater
shoot past and collect the last gallon of pink. I use it for the sink drains.
I never pumped antifreeze through the seawater side of my 2gm20f, and did not have a problem in 10 yrs of Toronto winters. I did drain the seawater side
by disconnecting the lower water pump hose, and draining the seawater strainer and muffler.
Dave
I can’t answer your question, but I also thought about that recently and I realized that antifreeze is running around the head.
While the block is cold, the thermostat is closed, directing the antifreeze around the head. Never had a problem but was curious about the water that might be remaining in there.
Paul Hood REFUGE – 1981 C&C34 on Georgian Bay /)
After winterized my boat I got to thinking about the process of pumping antifreeze through the engine and water
tank system. Some people winterize their house water system by blowing all the water out of the lines instead of pumping in antifreeze. If you did the same with the seawater side of the engine by simple running the engine until nothing came out of the exhaust
hose, wouldn't that work to protect the engine from freezing over the winter? That might be a problem running a standard impeller in the water pump dry, but with a run-dry impeller, I don't see why it wouldn't work. Dave
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