If you look at my previous threads you will notice I'm having a couple of issues at the moment. The more serious one is engine overheat at idle. If you rev the engine it will cool to normal operating temp, idle and same happens again.
I have just spoken to a dealer and he says the water pump in the alpha 1 gen 1 is too small for that engine!!!
Could this be true? The engine has been working fine but in the summer I don't spend a lot of time at idle. In the winter I run the engine for 30mins every week at the pontoon. Could this be why I notice it more now? This is the first winter Ive had the boat.
The water pump is in a bad way so was going to change it to see if this cures the problem.
Maybe it does work and is just borderline?now the pump is bad has it pushed the borderline? Maybe running at idle everyweek for 30mins is not such a good idea?
For reference there is no water pump on the engine and it is raw water cooled only.
I have just spoken to a dealer and he says the water pump in the alpha 1 gen 1 is too small for that engine!!!
Could this be true? The engine has been working fine but in the summer I don't spend a lot of time at idle. In the winter I run the engine for 30mins every week at the pontoon. Could this be why I notice it more now? This is the first winter Ive had the boat.
The water pump is in a bad way so was going to change it to see if this cures the problem.
Maybe it does work and is just borderline?now the pump is bad has it pushed the borderline? Maybe running at idle everyweek for 30mins is not such a good idea?
For reference there is no water pump on the engine and it is raw water cooled only.