ScubaSteve480
Cadet
- Joined
- May 20, 2012
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I recently purchased a 1996 sea ray ski ray with a 5.7 mercruiser 350 mag tournament ski. Boat is in amazing shape but had the engine maintenanced to make sure everything was up to par. One part that was changed was the water pump impeller, and after a test run noticed some leaking going on, so we completely changed the water pump all together. Took the boat out today and immediately the engine temp shot up to 220. water pump was hot and small black pieces were in water hoses and strainer. obviously the water pump wasnt getting water and the impeller got torn up, but what could of cause it? My only two guess's was the the two hoses conected to the water pump were mixed up or the impeller was put in the wrong way... New to the boat scene so any info on these engines would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!