4.3 OSI Engine flush...Can I winterize this way??????

[puff tentacle]

This is the first time I am attempting to winterize my boat. On my 2005 4.3 Volvo OSI engines there is a hose connection on the engines that you can run water through to flush the engine. A friend told me that all I have to do is connect a hose to that connection and run it to a bucket with a spicket and anti freeze in it. Turn the engine on and when anti freeze comes out the outdrives your done. Is that it????? thanks for any and all input. I am a newbie to winterizing and cant afford to keep paying the mechanic for something that I think I can do.

 

[Don S]

Re: 4.3 OSI Engine flush...Can I winterize this way??????

No, that is a flushing hose, not a winterizing hose.

 

[Bondo]

Re: 4.3 OSI Engine flush...Can I winterize this way??????

This is the first time I am attempting to winterize my boat. On my 2005 4.3 Volvo OSI engines there is a hose connection on the engines that you can run water through to flush the engine. A friend told me that all I have to do is connect a hose to that connection and run it to a bucket with a spicket and anti freeze in it. Turn the engine on and when anti freeze comes out the outdrives your done. Is that it????? thanks for any and all input. I am a newbie to winterizing and cant afford to keep paying the mechanic for something that I think I can do.

Ayuh,... Welcome Aboard,.... That method gives ya a 50/50 chance that you'll have a cracked block, come Spring....

Have a read Here, 'bout what oughta be done....
It's found in Here, which is alota Great Info you oughta read through...

 

[aerobat]

Re: 4.3 OSI Engine flush...Can I winterize this way??????

Turn the engine on and when anti freeze comes out the outdrives your done.

in any case you must wait until the t-stat fully opens or you are really done next spring.

No, that is a flushing hose, not a winterizing hose.

on the other hand - such straight forward thinking may lead you in a situation that somebody scratches "p...y" on a tree and you break yourself a very sensitive organ because you just believed how its named. :facepalm: