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Re: submerged engines

Posted By: Vic Roy
Date: Wednesday, 8 December 2004, at 6:15 p.m.

In Response To: Re: submerged engines (bruce)

Agree. Know several Faithful that have picked up good hurricane engines that did not get underwater, but they were local and cherry picked them early.

Your observation about filling them with diesel and just letting them sit is so profound. Now if you fill them with diesel, then crank them over fast enough to get the oil pump working, then flush it, do it again and again until all the water is out, may work if you follow the final diesel wash - agian letting the oil pump do the purging - with a couple of washes with clean motor oil. If the engine is not run under it's own power, just cranked over fast enough to work the oil pump, diesel might be a good (cheaper) idea as the "oil", but must be followed with clean motor oil, and the engine started and run with motor oil. Bottom line is that an engine that has been underwater is worth only a few pennies on the dollar no matter what you pickle it with.

UV

Messages In This Thread

submerged engines
bruce -- Wednesday, 8 December 2004, at 8:33 a.m.

Re: submerged engines
Dug -- Wednesday, 8 December 2004, at 8:57 a.m.

Re: submerged engines
GMarty -- Wednesday, 8 December 2004, at 1:32 p.m.

Re: submerged engines
Capt. Dave Kosh -- Wednesday, 8 December 2004, at 4:45 p.m.

Re: submerged engines
Vic Roy -- Wednesday, 8 December 2004, at 4:58 p.m.

Re: submerged engines
bruce -- Wednesday, 8 December 2004, at 5:56 p.m.

Re: submerged engines
Vic Roy -- Wednesday, 8 December 2004, at 6:15 p.m.

Re: submerged engines
Capt. Dave Kosh -- Thursday, 9 December 2004, at 11:30 a.m.