Re: 225 Running Hot
Re: 225 Running Hot
I am not sure if I am in the right place or not,
i have a 1980 Sea Ray 225 with a chev 350 with a 260 on the engine, this past week end while backing out of a very tight dock, i ran into a mud mound that i did not see unitl i had the boat back there and the depth finder said i was in 1.5 feet of water, so the whole lower end of the engine hit this mess, plus i had the prop completely entangled in sea weed, which i lifted the transum back out and cleaned off,
up to this point i have never had a over heating issue, i could run the engine at 1/2 wide open, flying through the water and barely got about 1/2 on the temp gauge, and i do watch all these guages everytime i am out,
my question is did i suck a bunch of sea weed or mud into the lower intake and if i did, how do i clean all this out, i took the little covers off the intake on the lower end and since i was told there was a screen on the intakes i though i would just clean this out, needless to say there was nothing there, i am looking for a manual for this engine to help me,
i have read everything from hooking the lower end to a source and letting it run to taking off or opening the side ports to let water flow through in the even there is mud or something impeding the lower end from proper water intake,
i know this is a bone head mistake, since i have made this same route backing out of this dock many times, i was not thinking i would have many problems, i did lift the lower unit up going back in to recover the boat to go home, we did spend the whole day fishing, i did not notice at the time any problems, the engine does start and run like it always has, excpet now it heats up after about 7 pr 8 minutes of running at open throttle,
thank you for all your ideas,
al
