01-30-2018, 04:31 PM
With the warmer weather soon we all will be pulling out our boats for spring cleaning and maintenance. We usually know when the impeller needs replaced on the outdrives on a time schedule. My tip is if your doing a maintenance driveway run with your outboard motors and there is no water circulating coming thru pee hole doesn't mean the impeller is bad. If you have access to an air compressor shoot a blast of air up thru the pee hole and this will unclog any formation of sediment thats had to time to scab up over the winter months. When I bought my current boat in Everett, WA the dealer noticed even though the kicker started up ok it wasn't circulating. It was a salt water content that built up clogging pee hole. A blast of air fixed that solution. During the same time frame a friend who de-winterized his boat for a Bear L spring run had both outboard motors clogged. I suggested this tip and he called me back an hour later informing me this trick worked. This tip will get you on the lake but it doesn't mean to avoid a vinegar flush.
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