I always often check the water coming out of the pee hole on my 110VRO, to make sure the water isn't to hot. I had not run the motor since last year, When I fired the engine up last spring it didn't take long and the water coming out was almost to hot to touch. So I took it to my local marine mechanic and he installed a new water pump, checked eveything and said I was good to go. The other day I hooked up my rabbit ears to the garden hose and fired the motor up as I always do so I have no suprises when I get to the lake, I let it run about 20 minutes, and kept checking the pee hole water, the stream ran from mediumwarm to warm, then I did feel a few second period of very hot, back to warm, I thought o.k. not to much to worry about, but then when I swiched the motor off the stream immieditly quit and steam came out, so I fired the motor back up for a few seconds, let the stream come back, and shut it off, again hot steam, I repeated firing up the motor and shutting it off a few more times and then the stream slowed down and came to a drip out of the pee hole as normal. My question is what do you think the problem is, or do I even have a problem? It just dosn't seem normal to me and I don't want to take any chances. Could it be the thermostat or what else is in the cooling system other than the water pump and thermostat that I should replace? Also in looking at the 110 VRO thermostat on this site it calls my 110 a crossflow and it looks to have 2 thermostats according to the pic, is this correct? Thanks, DK.
