Cattitude

So I went to Navarre/Destin for 4 days and despite my good intentions, I found some sand, never felt it hit, might have just grazed.

I noticed things sounded different after idling 100 yds out from Juana's/being beached and attempting to get on plane- looked at the gages, water temp was 180ish, shut it down.

Quickly found strainer to be full enough to the intake hose. cleaned the strainer, unplugged the hose to the strainer and flushed. removed the line to the sea pump and there was hardly and sand in it at all, flushed it too. Running a KPM pump with run dry capability.

Cleaned reassembled and all ran good including water pressure.

Do I have to worry about lingering sand in the block or does it flush out over time (if there is any in there)

Thanks

GOODT

you should be ok only thing to worry about would be is how badly did you score the seawater pump housing,

if you temps now are back to normal you should be good to go

birdog

YES !.....You should pull your block drains & fish around with water running.......DONT ask me how i know this !

Pwrbt33

iTrader: (2)

Its worth a shot to pull the side block drain plugs and start the motor up for a few minutes if you really are worried about it. If it was only a little bit in the hose you might be OK. It doesn't take but a minute to check.

John S.