When you run the pump is there a small amount of water in the bilge? If so there may not be enough liquid to fill the discharge hose enough that it actually would come out the boat. If this is a possiblilty then fill the bilge up a bit with fresh water or anti-freeze (pink kind) and run the pump and see if anything comes out. It will either come out at the transom or out the port side where the sink exits.
As far as the engine it is very simple. Disconnect the the intake hose from the seacock (under stbd 1/4 birth) insert a smaller extention hose (~3ft) into the raw water hose and place the end of the extention hose into a 5 gallon bucket with 3 gallons of Anti-freeze (the purple stuff). Crank the engine and run it until almost all of the anti-freeze is sucked up and it is flowing freely out the exaust. Turn off engine. Done. (-: Just make sure you find an extention hose that fits snugly in the intake hose or it will come out and you will have a mess. I would measure mine, but it is in the boat.
Don't forget to change the oil before you pull her. Top the fuel tank off etc.
David
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Originally posted by Gus:
Hello everyone-I bought Blitz a few months ago, and as someone alluded to on an earlier post, it is solid and fast. I have experienced no problems(knock on wood)yet and am about to pull her for the winter down here on NAS Pax, Md. I have what is probably a really dumb question, but here goes. When I turn on the bilge pump, I hear the appropriate sucking sounds, and the bilge quietly empties out, but I can go topsides and look at all the drain fittings and can't see any water coming out...can someone tell me where it exits, or do I have a problem? I think I would see water elswhere if a hose was loose, but the boat is dry.
Second question...what is the winterizing technique everyone uses to put the antifreeze in their 2QM-15's? I will have to do it while the boat is on the hard, as I have to motor into the lift as they pull it.
Thanks, Maj "Gus" Ward, USMC
