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Morning lads, Motors not pissing. Didn’t realize it until high temp alarm went off. Read some of your solutions. Compressed air blows out from rubber pee tube down through the intakes below, boiling the water. A good suggestion by Hondadude to take off the brass fitting on the block was done, started her, but again nothing. I’m gonna try running a piece of wire down from above today. In the back of my mind I’m thinking I’ve to change my impeller as I may have cooked it, idk. Just wanted to run this scenario by you guys. Maybe try something different. Bought second hand 2 years ago, new impeller and seal kit. Thanks for any help. Cheers
 
Agree with inspecting pump. If a new impeller was fitted into a used wiper/liner cup, it's possible that it has shredded itself by now.

I recommend a COMPLETE pump service kit.
Item 2 in the link below.


It comes with a new drive key. Use it and throw the old key away. You can spend a LOT of money trying to reuse that key.

Closely inspect the drive key slot in the mainshaft to make sure it hasn't been worn or hacked up by a slipped/tripped key.

Folks find out the hard way that scrimping or taking a casual approach to servicing the water pump usually ends with additional costs and unwanted trouble.

Good luck.
 
jgmo said:
Agree with inspecting pump. If a new impeller was fitted into a used wiper/liner cup, it's possible that it has shredded itself by now.

I recommend a COMPLETE pump service kit.
Item 2 in the link below.


It comes with a new drive key. Use it and throw the old key away. You can spend a LOT of money trying to reuse that key.

Closely inspect the drive key slot in the mainshaft to make sure it hasn't been worn or hacked up by a slipped/tripped key.

Folks find out the hard way that scrimping or taking a casual approach to servicing the water pump usually ends with additional costs and unwanted trouble.

Good luck.
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Thanks J. That’s what I’ve been thinking all along. I even went as far as using a syringe and blasting water into the pee hole. Not sure if any stayed in. A lot came back out, yet when air was blasted into the same hole the water at the intake end was bubbling. So…I decide to take off the side intake screens and blast air upwards, while in the water, kinda like priming it. Well there was a lot of gurgling but no water and some debris.
So next move is to pull the bottom end. Thanks for the advice…
 
Further to my issue of my engine not peeing. Did all the necessary steps to rid the engine of the cause of the blockage. Took the bottom intake screens off and did find a little bit of debris but also what looked like the very tip of the impellers vane. So dropped the bottom end and yes, the impeller was toast…melted, broken. So I removed the t stat housing and t stat and with compressed air blew up the pu tube from below, then blew from the t stat down. I also removed the brass fitting in the pee hole and blew in the hole. Put her all back together…started her, nothing, all to no avail. Then 04:00, laying in bed, I got thinking, my compressor only puts out 160 psi. My pressure washer puts out 3000 psi. So I dropped the bottom end again, and with my pressure washer, blasted from below up the pu tube and out the t stat housing above. It was raining scale and bits of impeller! Blasted from the pee hole on the side of the block and again it was spitting out scale but to a lesser degree, out the t stat housing. I took turns hitting it from the t stat down, from the pu tube below and then the pee hole. Total time was about 4 hrs from tear down to back in the water and pissing like a racehorse!
So I just wanted to fill y’all in, just in case this should happen to someone else out there. Guess the moral of the story is to rinse out your engine at least once every year or two, guess more often if you’re in salt water. Cheers and thanks for all the help.
 
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