Re: Can I put my boat in salt water for a week
Aside from that it is a total waste of your time it offers a really great chance to do damage to your engine.<br /><br />Those engines which have the ability to simply hook up a hose into their cooling systems to give a partial flush are OK (as long as you don't run the engine while doing it) if you want to use them but the muffs are just asking for trouble. All it takes is a short interuption of water flow to a jacket around the cylinder and its all over. Let's see, someone turns off the hose, the muffs fall off, some parks on the hose or runs over it and breaks it, for all I know someone flushes the toilet at the same time the washer is filling up. There are all sorts of reason why the water flow can slow down for a couple of moments and that's all it take with a running water cooled 2-stroke. On the corrosion side the damage was being done while you were out there running the engine, its not rotting away in your driveway because of some supposed salt film on the inside of the water jackets. So if you're just going to dip it back in saltwater the next time you use it there is no use in washing it out and if you're going to run it in freshwater next time then why bother to flush it out now? See what I mean?<br /><br />Thom
