I have contacted Merc about my question and I am still sleeping uneasy about the answer they gave me. I bought a boat down in Florida a few months ago, trailered it up to North Carolina and winterized it, then finished trailiering it back up to Connecticut for winter storage in on of my warehouses. I have to remove it from the warehouse this week so I wanted to check to make sure pink antifreeze came out of the cooling system.
The boat is a 2006 crownline with a 350 MAG MPI with the bravo outdrive. According to the manual, my system is the 3 point manual setup. 2 blue plugs on the sea water pump port side, 1 blue plug on the distrubution housing starburd side (there is no blue valve *i guess some do*), and one blue plug at the thermistat housing.
Here is what I am worried about. I pulled all the plugs and turned it over a few times like the dirrections said. Only about a quart of water came out. I questioned it but i read the directions completely so i continued on. I took off the main hose at the top and begain the never ending fill of pink antifreeze. It took all of 6 gallons to fill it up. After trailering it home, i put it in the warehouse thinking everything was set. 2 months go by and i am still wondering if everything went okay so yesterday i went and pulled the blue plug on the distrubution housing. This is what was odd, again only about a quart of fluid came out. I would say it was a mix of 50/50 of water and pink. Now I am worried that there is still water in the block. I pulled the 2 plugs on the seawater pump and that was nice and pink.
Why did water mix in with the pink stuff in the distrubtion housing when i made sure everything was flushed. When I filled the motor with antifreeze i waited for it to come out of every drain plug before capping it off. Another thing, where the hell did that 6 gallons of pink antifreeze go??? I thought for sure I was going to get flooded out when i pulled those plugs out. Is sort of like a outboard and gravity took over and drained some of the system? Kind of a silly question but thats the only thing I can think of as to where the dluid went. I have another boat with a 5.0 and that thing drained water for what seemed a lifetime. This boat was the complete opposite.
Did I do it right? Am I safe for the freezing elements?
The boat is a 2006 crownline with a 350 MAG MPI with the bravo outdrive. According to the manual, my system is the 3 point manual setup. 2 blue plugs on the sea water pump port side, 1 blue plug on the distrubution housing starburd side (there is no blue valve *i guess some do*), and one blue plug at the thermistat housing.
Here is what I am worried about. I pulled all the plugs and turned it over a few times like the dirrections said. Only about a quart of water came out. I questioned it but i read the directions completely so i continued on. I took off the main hose at the top and begain the never ending fill of pink antifreeze. It took all of 6 gallons to fill it up. After trailering it home, i put it in the warehouse thinking everything was set. 2 months go by and i am still wondering if everything went okay so yesterday i went and pulled the blue plug on the distrubution housing. This is what was odd, again only about a quart of fluid came out. I would say it was a mix of 50/50 of water and pink. Now I am worried that there is still water in the block. I pulled the 2 plugs on the seawater pump and that was nice and pink.
Why did water mix in with the pink stuff in the distrubtion housing when i made sure everything was flushed. When I filled the motor with antifreeze i waited for it to come out of every drain plug before capping it off. Another thing, where the hell did that 6 gallons of pink antifreeze go??? I thought for sure I was going to get flooded out when i pulled those plugs out. Is sort of like a outboard and gravity took over and drained some of the system? Kind of a silly question but thats the only thing I can think of as to where the dluid went. I have another boat with a 5.0 and that thing drained water for what seemed a lifetime. This boat was the complete opposite.
Did I do it right? Am I safe for the freezing elements?
