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350 cooling issues

ertw

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When running my mercruiser 198

When running my mercruiser 1980's 350 off the garden hose I noticed that the water running out the manifold on one side would stop flowing water out the exhuast after about 5 minutes of running the motor. I would shut it down and then restart it when water was running back out that manifold and it would run again for a bit with water coming out but stop again. A couple of times it would run fine but the other manifold that wasn't acting up would stop flowing water out. Any ideas? Is this a circulation pump or thermostat problem?
 
Generally garden hoses only pr

Generally garden hoses only provide enough water to run at idle.
There is always the possibility that a piece of old broken off raw water impeller is impeding the water flow.
 
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