Ok Stringer folks, put my new to me 400 electric stringer drive together onthe Seacraft last summer and bolted the pivot shafts to the transon mounts last fall but didn't finish putting the water side plates on over the shafts before winter. Just started again and found mud dauber wasps or some little mud carrying bugs had built in the bolt holes and coolant passages both heading to the drive and the engine so dug the mud and buggas out - lesson learned but when I blow on the shaft opening (both sides) its blocked. Hose is off at thermostat housing.
Am i right in assuming that its a clear passage to the thermostat? If so there may be more of th damn bugs in there.
But the bigger puzzle is that i see a small hole looking in from the port side pivot shaft coolant passage that is in the casting at the back of the passage where it takes a turn toward the engine.
Am i right the this is probably meant to have a screw plug? Don' t want to pull the drive back off if its supposed to be there as a weep hole.
But if it needs a plug what size is it?
Thanks guys, this is my first stringer.
Am i right in assuming that its a clear passage to the thermostat? If so there may be more of th damn bugs in there.
But the bigger puzzle is that i see a small hole looking in from the port side pivot shaft coolant passage that is in the casting at the back of the passage where it takes a turn toward the engine.
Am i right the this is probably meant to have a screw plug? Don' t want to pull the drive back off if its supposed to be there as a weep hole.
But if it needs a plug what size is it?
Thanks guys, this is my first stringer.
