T&T: How to clean out outboard cooloing system?

Richard Cook newmoon1 at prodigy.net
Mon Oct 1 08:43:28 EDT 2007


I once had a 9.9 Suzuki that got clogged up for lack of rinsing out with 
fresh water.  I was able to fix it by poking several inches of a thin 
braided steel cable into the telltale water outlet and wiggling and 
spinning it around until the salts were loosened.

Richard Cook
New Moon (Bounty 257)

Helented Brown wrote:
> I evidently didn't run fresh water thru our outboard last spring and now it
> doesn't pump water. Any suggestions on how to clear/clean this out?
> Ted
> Brown, Currently at Columbus Marina, Mississippi    608.215.3263


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