[Rhodes22-list] motor flushing/ non political

[Mary Lou Troy]

After every use if it is going to be sitting for more than a day or 
two. The new Yamaha has a flushing port. Just hook up the hose and 
let it run for 5 or 10 minutes. Motor doesn't have to be on.  Salt in 
the cooling passages killed our old Honda so the flushing feature was 
part of our decision on the Yamaha. The Hondas we looked at had a 
similar mechanism but you had to take the cowling off to get to it. 
Don't know if the Nissan/Tohatsu motors are as prone to saltwater 
corrosion but we didn't want to risk it after killing the Honda. It 
didn't have a flushing mechanism other than muffs or a bucket which 
seemed to us to be too hard to do in the slip.

Best,
Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD

At 04:59 PM 8/27/2008, you wrote:
>Curious to know how often any body flushes their outboards ?
>
>I m doing it every few weeks right now. Really foul foul water near
>my slip.
>I use a large bucket under the prop , raising my Garelick mount up
>all the way the prop is almost out of the water.
>I ve got the Tohatsu 6 with 20" shaft.  new motor
>
>Lou
>s/v Miracles
>
>
>
>
>On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Benjamin Cittadino wrote:
>
> > Tootle;
> >
> > I believe President Clinton was suspended (not disbarred) for 5
> > years by
> > the Arkansas Supreme Ct.  There was later an order by the US Supremes
> > disbarring him from practice in that Court, but it may have been
> > contested (I forget, but who's counting?). The actions were taken
> > because of allegations of untruthful testimony under oath.
> > Remember the
> > well publicized argument over his statement that "there is no affair",
> > and his position that at the time it was made the statement was
> > accurate, depending on "what the definition of IS is". Come on, ya
> > gotta
> > love the guy.
> >
> > By the way, my  old 9.9 Yamaha is runnin' like a top ( uh oh, did I
> > just
> > tempt the gods?).  The maintenance manual is available online from a
> > number of sources.  The "Sta-bil" seems to hold it together and 87
> > octane is plenty.
> >
> > Ben C.
> >
> >
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