Henry Boyd
Well-Known Member
- Apr 24, 2007
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- Boat Info
- ‘09 Sabre 38 Hardtop Express “Serenity”
- Engines
- Volvo D6 w/IPS450 Pods
In the process of moving our boat 12 nm from our dock to the boat yard where it will spend the winter we almost had a disaster.
On the 496 raw system there are hoses that go to the bottom of the exhaust manifold. The jacket on the manifold has a female threaded port that an aluminum nipple screws into. On the end of the nipple is a hose to pipe thread reducer. One of the nipples sheared off flooding the ER. Fortunately we were just pulling into the boat yard and somebody spotted the bilge pump ejecting water and ran and got the hydraulic trailer onto the ramp and pulled us right out.. We never got to the high water float switch.
This brings to mind two points for everybody else with 496/8.1. engines:
1) check these darn things!
2) have a set of wooden plugs handy in the ER.
I'll post pictures when the work gets done.
Henry
On the 496 raw system there are hoses that go to the bottom of the exhaust manifold. The jacket on the manifold has a female threaded port that an aluminum nipple screws into. On the end of the nipple is a hose to pipe thread reducer. One of the nipples sheared off flooding the ER. Fortunately we were just pulling into the boat yard and somebody spotted the bilge pump ejecting water and ran and got the hydraulic trailer onto the ramp and pulled us right out.. We never got to the high water float switch.
This brings to mind two points for everybody else with 496/8.1. engines:
1) check these darn things!
2) have a set of wooden plugs handy in the ER.
I'll post pictures when the work gets done.
Henry