Re: Cooling problem 302 Mercruiser 888
I'm with Arf. If it wasn't heating up before you changed the distributor and you didn't run it with out water, I don't think it is a circulation problem. It has to be something with the distributor, like timing, or something else you worked on between the time it ran cool to the time it ran hot. <br />I reset my timing on my 3.7 merc and it ran good on the muffs, but when I opened it up on the river it started heating up. Backed the timing off and it went back to normal oper. temp.
I'm with Arf. If it wasn't heating up before you changed the distributor and you didn't run it with out water, I don't think it is a circulation problem. It has to be something with the distributor, like timing, or something else you worked on between the time it ran cool to the time it ran hot. <br />I reset my timing on my 3.7 merc and it ran good on the muffs, but when I opened it up on the river it started heating up. Backed the timing off and it went back to normal oper. temp.