Andy

Thank you for all your effort each and every day.

Full suit last weekend in the morning.  Heater top after work on Wednesday this past week.  

Rectum…damn near killed him

The wakes are huge and I also find the rear facing driver’s seat a problem 

@BGrow76 I pulled them all one at a time looking for pieces of impeller.  I also found a goose feather in the hose from the lake to the strainer.  

I hooked the boat up to the hose.  Pored  coolant in the degas bottle until it wouldn’t drain into the system by itself.  With degas bottle about half full, started the boat and checked water strainer.  My 196 has the degas bottle at the back of the engine, so I tried to make that the highest point in the system, added coolant until level in the degas bottle stayed consistent.  I’m not sure this is the correct method.  There may still be an air bubble in there, but it’s running 165-170 as it did previously.

@BGrow76 I didn’t drain the heat exchanger, just pulled the hoses.

Have you considered a 200V?

My 196 has a zr6.  It overheated the other day.  Coolant ended up in the bilge.  After the clean and impeller change, I drained the remaining coolant in the system.  Added fresh coolant via the degas bottle, ran boat up to temp, burped coolant in the degas bottle, I ended up with about 2.5 gallons (some may have been bilge water) out but only 1.5 new went in until degas bottle level stayed constant.  How else is there to burb/bleed the system?  

Well done.