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Curt Larsen
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" I have a Palmer M-60 engine
" I have a Palmer M-60 engine in my 1969 Luders 33. It is one I rebuilt 6 years ago from a Cub tractor block and has run fine. I want to get a couple of more years out of it before I replace it with a diesel.
The problem is this: the wet exhaust system is an old tube-in-tube copper design that was apparently made to fit the boat. The manufacuturer was
Marine Manifold Corp. in NY. The dry exhaust tail pipe from the flange screws into the neck of the copper system and the raw water hose from the
mainfold connects to a hose barb on the side of the copper tube. The water appears to flow around the dry exhaust inner tube for half its length and
then exits through a second hose barb higher up a non-jacketed tube ending with a gooseneck. The second hose barb is connected to a third barb located downstream from the gooseneck so that it dumps water directly into the exhaust hose. It doesn't mix with the exhaust until there.
The inner tube on the system has given out and allows water to flow back into the manifold and engine.
I planned to just scrap this old system and put in a Naqualift wet exhaust, but there is just no room in there to properly install it.
After agoninzing over this for some time now, I've
come to the conclusion that it might be better for me and the boat to find someone who can rebuild the old copper system. Does anyone know of someone in the Baltimore/Annapolis area that might be able to to this type of work? I live in the Solomons, MD area.
Any ideas would be great. Thanks,
Curt Larsen "
" I have a Palmer M-60 engine in my 1969 Luders 33. It is one I rebuilt 6 years ago from a Cub tractor block and has run fine. I want to get a couple of more years out of it before I replace it with a diesel.
The problem is this: the wet exhaust system is an old tube-in-tube copper design that was apparently made to fit the boat. The manufacuturer was
Marine Manifold Corp. in NY. The dry exhaust tail pipe from the flange screws into the neck of the copper system and the raw water hose from the
mainfold connects to a hose barb on the side of the copper tube. The water appears to flow around the dry exhaust inner tube for half its length and
then exits through a second hose barb higher up a non-jacketed tube ending with a gooseneck. The second hose barb is connected to a third barb located downstream from the gooseneck so that it dumps water directly into the exhaust hose. It doesn't mix with the exhaust until there.
The inner tube on the system has given out and allows water to flow back into the manifold and engine.
I planned to just scrap this old system and put in a Naqualift wet exhaust, but there is just no room in there to properly install it.
After agoninzing over this for some time now, I've
come to the conclusion that it might be better for me and the boat to find someone who can rebuild the old copper system. Does anyone know of someone in the Baltimore/Annapolis area that might be able to to this type of work? I live in the Solomons, MD area.
Any ideas would be great. Thanks,
Curt Larsen "