advice on saltwater [Archive]

jkh04200

10-10-2006, 05:20 PM

I normally boat in salt and or brakish water. I always flush for atleast 20 mins. and wash everything down good. Antyhting else I can do?
Thanks.
P.S.
228 Merc. I/O or 305 SBC

hottrodder

10-10-2006, 07:18 PM

A few peeps I know that run in the big blue use Saltaway (http://www.saltawayproducts.com/)

vee-driven

10-10-2006, 10:35 PM

wd-40

mtnrat

10-11-2006, 06:43 AM

Add FWC if ya have a little spare cash. Worth it in the long term. I had a 305 with FWC that was almost 30 years old. Clean as a whistle when I finally repowered to a 350 and it was a mostly salt water boat. Still have to flush of course.

ghittner

10-11-2006, 07:00 AM

Saltaway.

jkh04200

10-11-2006, 08:34 AM

What is FWC?

Beer-30

10-11-2006, 08:46 AM

FWC = Fresh Water Cooling (heat exchanger).
The boat doesn't take near the hit the trailer does. If not alum, I urge you to pull a tail light once in awhile and flush up and back through that. I recently changed some lights for a friend whos Extreme trailer had been dunked a few times. It looked horrible inside the channels and it is a 2003!

Flynlow

10-11-2006, 04:05 PM

FWC, but still need to flush [outdrive, heat exchanger, manifolds. etc.]. It adds the benefit of control of engine temp. which in turn gives a baseline for your performance enhancements. Trailer wil need attention also, as Beer-30 advised.