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Dual Motors Overheating on Eliminator
I hope you
will help me as I am in a loss as to what my problem is.
So I thank you in advance
I have an 1987 23' Eliminator Daytona with 2 Mariner 2.4? 200 EFI's.
I have sportmaster gearcases, and I am not sure of the props(3 blades) one
engine is counter rotating. They are sitting on a 14" setback. I have
just set the motors to where the nosecone is 1 inch above the bottom of
the sponson.
The powerheads were replaced with factory new 1998 powerheads and the
gearcases were added at the same time in January 2001.
I am having a overheating problem with both motors. I have replaced the
impellers, thermostats and sensors, Lowered then raised the motors
(manually). Put a manual temp gauge on just to see if my electronic gauges
were working properly.
My water pressure does not seem to get above 10 psi.
If I run the boat at approx. 4000 rpm, at 3/4 trim. It seems to cool the
motors of some.
I am currently replacing the gaskets on the bottom of the block and the
spacer (don’t know what it is called). Just to see if the gaskets were
wrong. I don’t believe they were.
So I think I am back to my original thought of the motors are not sucking
up water.
As I bought this boat in the configuration it is in. I cannot give to much
detail about what it was doing before. I have called the last owner about
the situation. Found out he knew about the overheating but I believe he
traded the boat off because he could not rectify the problem.
I bought it from a dealer. And don’t have any recourse but to find out
why it is overheating.
Any thoughts about what I could try would be very helpful.
And thanks again
Craig Parker
Killeen, Texas
Craig,
Here is my list of things to try.
1. Make sure the gasket between the 2 motor plates (the
ones that sandwich the upper motor mounts) is not blown out.
2. Luckily, I just did one of these 3 - 4 days ago with
the same problem. The problem all revolves around the pop-off valve on the
bottom, starboard side of the block. I would recommend removing the
pop-off valve assembly and replace it with the plate and elbow off of a
2.5 race engine. You can either dump this water overboard, or better yet,
dump it into the fitting located on the portside of the exhaust adaptor
(kind of under and ahead of the port cylinder head). Also, remove the
thermostats and replace them with the restrictor washers from a 2.5 engine
either 1/8 or 3/16 hole size. This setup will work much better with the
Sportmaster cases and the heights you were running. The water as it is now
is getting short circuited in the block and not absorbing the heat from
the engine properly.
3. Lastly, with the new Sportmaster cases, make sure the
water tube and water pump diameters match. Mercury makes 1/2 inch and 3/4
inch tubes and I have seen them mixed up on boats before.
Give this a try as I do about 2-3 a year with the same problems.
Randy
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Thanks,
Mark C.
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