Engine For Boat

I agree the oil filled electric seem to work pretty good. I also have a ceramic space heater with tip-over switch. But I installed 20 amp outlets and breakers for these heaters. I don use the regular boat receptacle circuits. And I made sure all my shore power CABLES ARE IN GOOD CONDITION.

2009-12-15 13:34:52 by Gizmo

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I am looking into building a steam boat style engine for a large boat project I am working on. It is my first and a steam engine seems most what I need. I know very little technical terms. Thank you!

Not at all impossible. But very difficult without extensive engineering knowledge and experience.

Best option is to purchase a steam engine and boiler from a builder, get your boiler attendant ticket and operators certificate and enjoy. To re-invent a couple of hundred years of technology from scratch will be very very hard to get right - and potentially lethal.

2009-07-08 20:08:03 by Niwdoog

I am putting my boat and car up for storage for the next 8 months. I can buy ethanol free gas for my 5 liter boat engine, but I can only buy E-10 gas at the pump for my car. I have heard E-10 will not affect an auto engine, deteriorating rubber gasket or seal components, but I hear it eats at the seals and gaskets in a marine engine. What is the truth?

Hi Jim

My answer will be between Mark and Jim.
My son takes a lot of these trips, and as such after 5 years of it, we have gotten a pretty good routine.
A. put a little gas stabilizer in the tank and drive it around before parking, same for the boat. When you park the car and the boat, pull the batteries on both or at least one terminal. The car is probably more important than the boat, the alarm system will discharge the battery and keep it that way which will kill the car battery in 6 months or less. I can't say for the boat, but I would disconnect it anyway, and don't forget the trolling battery.
As far as tires, I have not seen a problem and my son's truck has been sitting in the pasture for the bulk of the 5 years except when he is home on vacation, and I drive that one once a month or every couple of months, his car is in a storage shed and as such, never gets driven between visits. The car has the terminal pulled, the pickup does not, and if I don't drive the pickup every so often the battery dies. If I leave it to much longer than that, I wind up buying him a new battery.
Do not set your brakes, they can and will rust to the drums or disks, and are very difficult to get loose. Park is ok on an automatic or in gear in a manual.
When you get back and start the vehicle, let it idle for about 10 minutes, DO NOT accelerate until this period is over, oil needs to get recirculated in the engine as it has all ran off, if you give it the gas, you can pit the shafts, journals and cause the valves to seize. Also on an automatic transmission will need time to get fluid and pressure to the disks and bearings. In a manual, let the clutch out in neutral so lubricant can get worked around. Do not go on the freeway until you have a couple miles in city driving to get the bearings lubed.
Now for the boat, if it is efi your pretty much ahead of the game, if not, add a can of Sea Foam to the tank at the mix value given, it will help clean out any varnish that may have formed. Although if you put in a stabilizer it should limit that.
For the most part, 8 months is not that long of a storage period if you follow what I said, my son's have been put up as long as a year without harm, all 3 vehicles still run like new. A lot of that has to do with how we bring them up when he comes home.

As far as the E10, I do not think it will be an issue, as we get that stuff here also. On my boat, I make my last fill of the season just before the gas changes, and that will usually last me until spring when the gas changes back or nearly. Both of my sons cars are fairly new, and as such are made to work with ethanol. Methanol was the one that affected warranty. I have a new Merc outboard, 2008 and do not think there would be a problem with it, my sons is a 2007 and I do not see that there is applicable difference between them.

Good luck on your trip and hope you make it home safe.

2009-04-19 05:55:37 by Jim Z

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I'm just looking for the easiest way to change the oil in my boat engine.

If thats a 4 cyl Chev you can drain the pan but your bilge will be a mess. The dipstick tube should be threaded, you can hook a pump line to it. I have a small pan with hose attached that goes under the oil pan (the hose runs out the drain plug).It drains any crap out that lays in the pan & its faster then pumping.

2008-07-20 06:39:09 by Charlie

i am planning to buy a maruti gypsy kings , and i wish to change its mpfi engine for better mileage as milage is somewhere around 10 , my friend told me to go for a toyota mortor boat engine , and if i do this modificatin will i have the 4 wheel drive .(the modified engine would be a diesel engine) .

Hey insomniac, you need to get some sleep, your suggestion is both ridiculous and ill founded.If you are serious boat motors have a totally different application and operating environment and would be totally unsuitable in a terra application. The power band and usable torque would not be applicable to the weight and launch requirements of an auto. The answer to your question is yes, however impractical that maybe, sleep on it.

2010-01-13 04:39:12 by Insomniac Abhi