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Leaking Vented Loop

The purpose of a vented loop is to serve as an anti-siphon feature aboard your boat. You don’t want to allow water to backflow into your boat creating flooding problems. On a toilet it will overflow your head and create a mess on your flooring. On an engine the back flow of water could hydrolock your piston and severely damage the engine. […]

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Impeller Trouble Shooting

The raw water pump on your marine engine uses a rubber vane impeller as a self priming pump. The impeller pushes the water through the system to cool the engine components including the antifreeze/internal coolant, the oil, exhaust manifold and hoses to name a few items. On a propulsion engine there are even more items to keep cool. […]