Hi from Scandinavia
Winter is comming fast here in northern scandinavia and i had to take my boat out of the water this weekend and winterize it (engine is a 2006 Mercruiser 3,0 FWC w Alpha Drive) total runing hours 300
I followed Dons excelent guide and the engine and boat is now winterized ready for the hard Scandinavian winter - douing the winterization process i got a few questions that i hope you can help me with
-I havent adjusted valves on my 3,0 mercruiser - is it something you should do as maintenence - engines runs perfect and has no valve noise etc.
-I have checked gimbalbearing - and lubricated it - it seems to be in perfect shape - but should it be changed just as a precaution (bearing has now 300 hours on it)
-I changed the water pump (mercruiser recomends that you do that every 300 hours) - but water pump was in "as new" condition maybe due to the fresh water only use that my boat is used in - can / should i wxtend the next service to eg. 4 years?
Winter is comming fast here in northern scandinavia and i had to take my boat out of the water this weekend and winterize it (engine is a 2006 Mercruiser 3,0 FWC w Alpha Drive) total runing hours 300
I followed Dons excelent guide and the engine and boat is now winterized ready for the hard Scandinavian winter - douing the winterization process i got a few questions that i hope you can help me with
-I havent adjusted valves on my 3,0 mercruiser - is it something you should do as maintenence - engines runs perfect and has no valve noise etc.
-I have checked gimbalbearing - and lubricated it - it seems to be in perfect shape - but should it be changed just as a precaution (bearing has now 300 hours on it)
-I changed the water pump (mercruiser recomends that you do that every 300 hours) - but water pump was in "as new" condition maybe due to the fresh water only use that my boat is used in - can / should i wxtend the next service to eg. 4 years?
