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Old 11 September 2005, 19:04   #1
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Sea Water in cowling

Any body else noticed water getting in the engine bay area?
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Old 11 September 2005, 21:19   #2
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Only when the rubber pipe from Block to tell-tale outlet was pulled off accidentally whilst I was mucking about under the cowling

Won't do that again. Luckily I only ran it up on the muffs before I noticed, although I did panic at the lack of tell-tale until I figured it out.

I presume the rubber seal is fitted OK on your engine.
Worth also checking somebody hasn't removed a water temp/pressure gauge or similar without blocking off the hole before you brought the engine.

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No water comming from the block, it's all comming in externally. I've spent the day with the remains of some silkaflex filling all the joints in the casing. One thing I did notice today was that two one-way valves in the bottom of the casing were blocked, I succesfully cleaned one out but damaged the other removing the ball so it lets a little water though from the other way.
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