Draining water on my 1998 4.3 mercruiser

[diggerdan17]

I pulled all 5 blue plastic plugs today and the two manifold plugs only had a cup of water in each. The two lower block plugs had a ton of water come out.

I did probe the two manifold plugs as well as take off the hoses from t -stat and blew compressed air through.I am wondering why the manifold didn't have very much water in them? is this normal? I did trailer the boat home from the lake before I did this so maybe the water settled out of the manifolds?

I'm sure its fine but this is my first time winterizing and I like to know what others have found.Boat runs awsome and we really enjoyed our first year as lake property owners

Digger

 

[Bondo]

I pulled all 5 blue plastic plugs today and the two manifold plugs only had a cup of water in each. The two lower block plugs had a ton of water come out.

I did probe the two manifold plugs as well as take off the hoses from t -stat and blew compressed air through.I am wondering why the manifold didn't have very much water in them? is this normal? I did trailer the boat home from the lake before I did this so maybe the water settled out of the manifolds?

I'm sure its fine but this is my first time winterizing and I like to know what others have found.Boat runs awsome and we really enjoyed our first year as lake property owners

Digger

Ayuh,.... That sounds Ok, 'cept ya oughta pull the Big hose off the circulatin' water pump, it'll hide up to a quart,....