[C38] surge/overflow tank

[Max Soto]

Steve,

Exactly where is this butterfly valve located??? There is one on my engine,
but is close to the oil dipstick, too low to be the one that you are talking
about.....

Max

2009/8/25 Steve Smolinske <SSmolinske at rainierrubber.com>

> Im right in the middle of rebuilding my raw water pump, replacing the fresh
> water pump, heat exchanger and hoses also removing the plumbing that was
> attached to my heat exchanger.  Im not an expert but what I found with
> overheating on my boat is that it takes a lot of patience to bleed the air
> out of the hot water tank especially if the hose takes a bend down from the
> exchanger and then up to the hot water tank.  The last time I filled my
> system I had to fill the manifold, run the engine it would heat up to 220 or
> so I would kill the engine and wait until it burped, then top off the
> manifold run the engine it would over heat, kill the engine, burp, etc etc.
>  It took about an hour until I had a stream of antifreeze coming out of the
> butterfly valve and the engine ran normally.   I dont have a surge tank in
> my system so cant offer any advice there.   The butter fly valve is at the
> highest point in the cooling system so air will work its way through the
> system to that point with air in the system as the engine heats up youll get
> that lovely antifreeze steam, frothy liguid and spurts of antifreeze.  You
> need to keep going until there is a steady flow of antifreeze.   Hope that
> helps.
>
> Steve
> Peregrine #312
> Seattle
>
>
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> From: listserve-bounces at catalina38.org on behalf of david at dlrfilms.com
> Sent: Tue 8/25/2009 3:34 PM
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> Subject: [C38] surge/overflow tank
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>
> Still messing about with the motor. No overheat today with the water tank
> out of the loop.
>
> Also moved the surge tank to a lower position, buzzed around the lake with
> my access port open and noticed that instead of the usual come to temp
> then push air out until we over heat, there was a frothy flow, which makes
> me think I had the tank to high and the pressure from the tank was keeping
> the cooling system from venting properly. If nothing else the observable
> flow seems to have ruled out the spring loaded cap as a source of the
> problem.
>
> Having made that observation, what should the relationship between the
> fill cap and the hot and cold lines on the surge tank be?
>
> Thanks!
>
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