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Originally Posted by JohnRPollard
MaineSail,
Good advice all around. But I would argue that some of the extra steps you take are not as vital in the less frigid, shorter-layup regions. Down here on the Chesapeake, we are talking about 10 weeks or so of winter lay-up, rather than 10 months like up in Maine!  |
I would agree
and as a matter of fact I know of very few up this way who seal of the intake and exhaust manifolds. I do see lots of "low hour" engines replaced though and ours has almost 3k and shows no signs of wear and oil analysis comes back nearly perfect... When it comes to my engine I do go overboard but it's better than forking out 10-15k for a new engine every 1200-1600 hours as I see many boaters doing..
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Originally Posted by JohnRPollard
MaineSail,
I used to pull the impeller as you do after winterizing. But I stopped doing that some years ago. I now leave it in for the winter and replace it in the spring with a new one. With this approach I only take the pump apart once in March, and eliminate one more aggravation in December.
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My pump is also only taken apart once. I pull the plate and impeller and leave it off with the screws taped to the cover plate. In the spring I re-install the new impeller and put the cover plate back on..
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Originally Posted by JohnRPollard
I do keep a new impeller handy as a spare -- if I have to take the trouble/time to swap impellers, I want to put a new one in rather than a used one.
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I keep a new one too but also keep last years spare as a back up to the back up. I've yet to ever need to install a used impeller but with the remoteness of parts of this area and lack of parts availability I like to have two of them... I rotate out the used spare each year as time can have an effect on the rubber too...