psneeld
Guru
May want to grab the hoses of your oil cooler and give them a good yank.
Underway today the one on the assistance towboat fell apart. Discovered it after the engine temp shot up to 225 and the alarm was sounding. I had only been underway less than 5 minutes and most of it at no wake speed on the gasoline 454 engine.
Troubleshooting drove me nuts for about 10 minutes as nothing I checked seemed to be wrong...then when tracing the hose from the strainer to the oil cooler and forward (it's kinda under the port exhaust manifold so hard to see)...there hanging in mid air was the hose with just the end cap still in the hose but completely free from the cooler.
No corrosion or sign of leaks on the cap (cooler gets replaced later tonight)...like it was just pressed on with a little permatex sealant...pretty weird as the 2 replacement ones have visible solder in the crevice. That cooler was put in the boat in march of 2009 so the 5 year lifespan of those cheaper coolers proved true in this case.
Luckily got a tow from a passing friend the 500 yards back to the dock and within the hour and a piece of 1 inch PVC sawn of a junk piece of PVC laying around the boatyard to bypass the cooler and I was off on my way again....
Underway today the one on the assistance towboat fell apart. Discovered it after the engine temp shot up to 225 and the alarm was sounding. I had only been underway less than 5 minutes and most of it at no wake speed on the gasoline 454 engine.
Troubleshooting drove me nuts for about 10 minutes as nothing I checked seemed to be wrong...then when tracing the hose from the strainer to the oil cooler and forward (it's kinda under the port exhaust manifold so hard to see)...there hanging in mid air was the hose with just the end cap still in the hose but completely free from the cooler.
No corrosion or sign of leaks on the cap (cooler gets replaced later tonight)...like it was just pressed on with a little permatex sealant...pretty weird as the 2 replacement ones have visible solder in the crevice. That cooler was put in the boat in march of 2009 so the 5 year lifespan of those cheaper coolers proved true in this case.
Luckily got a tow from a passing friend the 500 yards back to the dock and within the hour and a piece of 1 inch PVC sawn of a junk piece of PVC laying around the boatyard to bypass the cooler and I was off on my way again....
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