Broken Hose Clamp

[FreeBeeTony]

While fishing tonight I had a slight problem........

I pulled anchor and started to accelerate and I felt a loss of power.....thought it might be weeds so I put it in reverse and tried again....same thing. I looked at my son and said "somethings wrong". Shut the engine down and opened the cover to find water everywhere......I immediately thought of the bellows because I just replaced them this year. I started the engine to find the "return" hose on the raw water side of the heat exchanger was loose spraying water.......the hose clamp was broken!!

I took a hose clamp off the scupper hose (had them doubled below the water line!) and installed it on the heat exchanger.......started the engine w/ no problems, guess things were getting wet when I was loosing power!! Engine seemed fine after the leak was fixed!

Only concern I have is the water (salt water) was running over the alternator........seemed fine.....voltage was normal on the gauge.

Ran out of daylight.........going to give it a WD40 bath as soon as I can.

 

[cr2k]

Re: Broken Hose Clamp

My guess is that any damage is already done. May not noticeable, but maybe a few months life of the alt. later on.

 

[FreeBeeTony]

Re: Broken Hose Clamp

Think it will last the season?..........would rather pull it after the season to have it tested.

 

[vxtech]

Re: Broken Hose Clamp

for piece of mind i would remove it and have a local rebuilder shop look it over,it should cost more than $50.00 rebuilt