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How did the splines move within the impeller. It's one piece of rubber with a meal (bronze?) center.
I really doubt a Volvo Penta OEM impeller is wrong for your engine. But part number could have been looked up wrong or wrong part in the box or someone changed the raw water pump and it's...
I have been turning off the battery switches for years.without an issue. So either a battery switch was left on when I thought it was off or the battery had an issue.
I have a house and starting. And an isolated battery for the bow thruster.
So I went to the boat today connected a garden hose to the flush adapter and turned on the water. A lot of water was coming out the normal intake on both sides of the outdrive. I assume the raw water pump stationary prevents any water from getting into the heat exchanger or exhaust risers...
I just put the muffs over the vertical intake grates.
There are other water ports for intake in the outdrive?
Where?
Could the impeller be damaged if it was sucking air for several minutes. It does not look damaged.
Is this true? Was not aware.
Uncovered Auxiliary Water Pickup (Most Common)
Volvo Penta sterndrives, particularly the DPS-A and OceanX models, feature a secondary water intake hole located on the very bottom of the lower gearcase, just forward of the propeller. If you place standard muffs...
If I run the engine with a garden hose supplying water to the flush adapter at the front of the engine, that won't suck in air if the plastic fitting previously mentioned is cracked?
Here is the raw water pump looking at the inside. I believe it's a clockwise engine rotation so the impeller find that are really bent are bent in the right direction. Anyone see anything wrong? The impeller I think was put in backwards as the threaded portion should be facing out so you can...
From my reading the vanes will flip if installed with the vanes curling in the wrong direction.
And the hoses on my raw water pump are different diameters so they cannot be swapped.
Where did you get the new cover?
How did you decide which of the side of the impeller should face away from the engine?
Looking at the pump on the engine the vane at 12 o'clock should curl to the left or right.
Did you lube impeller with glycerin?
So looking at the pump on the engine the vane at 12 o'clock should curl to the left or right. This is normal rotation engine.
I am pretty sure the hoses are slightly different diameters and so cannot be reversed. But how to check?
Had not been to be that in awhile and so I connected the muffs and turned on the water and as normal water shots out from the muff rubber part touching the outdrive. Then started the engine. Normally with the engine running only a little water comes out from around the muff rubber part. This...
It's inside a building so no sun and no power. Battery switches off. Given there might be 10,000 gallons of gas among 300 boats they want to really reduce the chance of fire.
There is a huge tank outside maybe 50 feet tall and 50 in diameter of water or maybe water & foam to use for fire...
It's all relative for fuel mileage. I think the Queen Mary got 16 feet to the gallon. There are a lot of feet between NY and London. Gas gauge was in "tons". The question was we are in port for nn hours. How big a hose to we need to transfer all the required fuel in nn hours?
