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Originally Posted by RedDog382
Garrett,
Thanks for the input. Want to add these if I can find a good location to rig them. OSO Steve recommended the Stainless Marine also ... think I will go with them.
Are you feeding water from the drives or did you go to a hull pick-up?
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I kept the feed from the drives. I think there might be some advantages to adding hull pickups, but I didn't really explore it. I've also heard that it is a good idea to keep water going through the drives to help with cooling even if moving to hull pick ups. I guess that the drive water would just go straight to dumps in this case. I put dual dumps on each side and put a pressure relief on the strainer. My opinion is that the pressure relief should go on the clean water side of the strainer to prevent starvation from dumping water as pressure builds on the dirty side as the filter starts to clog.
The water intake goes through the strainer and then to the raw water pump.
The reason I chose to not use the stainless marine strainers are that they are quite a bit taller than the one I used. I can't remember now all the trade offs, but I know I couldn't mount them where I have the current ones mounted, and I *think* that I would have had to remove the flip up steps to have enough clearance for the stainless marine ones.
I have also *heard* that some of the bronze strainers are better strainers. Several of these strainer companies have been around for a long long time building strainers for off shore boats/yachts. I didn't find this out until after I already had mine in, but I think I'd check this out more if I was doing it over.
Here's a external pic of the dual water dumps. I only use one dump tube on each side with a pressure relief valve on the strainer. But, I thought, hell, if I'm drilling holes in a perfectly good boat, why not drill a couple more.
I figured it would be good to have just in case I get more exotic on the power some day. Believe me, I sweated drilling those holes. Not to mention I drilled them in August last year in Phoenix. I did it at night. I drank a beer after it was over to relax.
I like the way I have mine mounted. It is solid. I used 3/4" x 1.5" aluminum bar mounted in to the aluminum that the steps are on. I used all stainless cap screws and nylock nuts w/ flat washers. If I hadn't been in such a hurry, I would have powder coated the aluminum white first, but there always time for future projects.
The new drives are on the boat in this pic. They hadn't even been in the water yet.
G.
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