blazeracer
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Wakemaker said:How to fill a fresh motor with water 5 min after firing it up for the first time:[/color][/color] 1) Run water exactly as it was when you had thru-transom exhaust! (By the way there are no seep holes in logs or snails!!!) 2) Run motor full of confidence for 5 minutes setting timing and generally feeling good about having an new bullet in boat. 3) Pull hot wire from distributor while water is flowing heavily from newly configured over the transom snails. 4) Wait for water that you were somehow able to push up through the snails to come running back down in cylinder heads, so as to fill all cylinders full completely full of water.
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DUDE!!! That should totally NOT work! For that exact reason, the water still in the pipe when you cut it off is going to run back into the cylinders and hit the hot exhaust valves. Logs will NOT drain like headers. Water should not be coming out of those at idle. In fact, I don't even know how water is coming out of those at all, but I'm no expert on these things. The flange on those should seal the logs. I always thought those OT tips were used for tuning only.
OK, looked closer. It would seem that those should have a ball valve only allowing water to flow thru when hauling it, then cut off before lifting to dry them out.