2025 should have a bumper crop of freeze busted blocks come spring

[Scott Danforth]

Northern Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arizona should all have high yields of busticated blocks come spring time.

 

[redneck joe]

Glad I went back to outboard.

 

[Pmt133]

I can picture it now... "well, I did pull the drain plugs." "It pushed the freeze plug out, it did what it was supposed to do, right?" "Will jb weld fix this?" "Maybe it's only the intake." "Why is my oil milky?"

 

[Lou C]

“I shoulda spent the cash on closed cooling!”

 

[rolmops]

Do I sense some form of sarcasm?
But look at the positive side of things. It will increase the sale of equipment and it will also increase the availability of parts that came of those broken blocks. So (almost) everybody will gain from this situation.

 

[racerone]

It appears to be a combination of many factors.-----Locked storage compounds.----Lack of knowledge by newbies.-----High cost of having a shop do the work.-----Surprise cold snap and boat far from home --ETC, etc

 

[Lou C]

And the reality is, raw water cooled inboards where the drain plugs are way down low is just always a risk here. Bad way to save money. The better way to run one would be at least a half closed system with both an easy to drain heat exchanger and exhaust. Pressurized coolant with antifreeze is just superior. Yes when I repower mine I will gladly pay the $2,200 for that. Anybody who’s had one of these and struggled getting at those plugs on a V6 or V8 knows what I’m talking about!!!
Because of the heat exchanger you could even use the suck up the AF via the outdrive (using a pump to augment flow) for winterizing and be done with this chore in 10-15 min!
Merc’s quick drain is another type of denial, yeah they work for a few years and then they don’t. Because of how cast iron corrodes! Flakes clog drains!

 

[DeepCMark58A]

Never trust the weather

 

[aspeck]

I am glad I have a heated, mostly underground garage and an outboard.