[Rhodes22-list] motor flushing/ non political

[Michael D. Weisner]

I really wonder if it is all that necessary to flush the motor.  Maybe we 
have been lucky for nearly 30 years.  Maybe they don't make engines like 
they used to.  I use a mooring in the Nissequogue River and have no access 
to fresh water after motoring to mooring.  I just raise and tilt the old '79 
Suzuki DT7.5 2-cycle that is mostly aluminum and never seemed to have an 
issue with salt (LI Sound.)  It still starts on the first or second pull and 
runs like a champ (even on E-85 mixed with 2-cycle oil.)  Never quite but 
always dependable.

Maybe it is just running on memory like the rest of us ...

Mike
s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
Nissequogue River, NY

From: "Mary Lou Troy" <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 
5:49 PM
> 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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