T&T: Onan cooling problems

Steve Burgis steve at burgis.org
Tue Mar 10 11:08:42 EDT 2009


David Poorvu wrote:

> I am having a problem with my Onan MDKAE-3376937 generator. It looses raw

> water prime if not running while underway. 

 

I had an Air Conditioner water pump that also kept losing prime. We solved
it by putting a small bronze scoop on the hull over the thru hull. The
theory was that motion thru the water was creating a venturi and sucking the
water out of the pump and strainer. 

 

Steve Burgis

Summer Triangle 

36 Albin


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