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Finally got to splash the b!tch tonight
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ChiefApache
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Of course that's your luck! Great to see the boat splashed.
Ratickle
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Send in Donzi Girl.........:sifone:
northernoffshore
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I had a 28' w/sbc and savage/gil oil coolers and drilled t-stats,ran dry gil exhaust. it always ran cold and seemed to like it.
Birdog
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You are the guy to do it ! After crawling completly into my bilge....:sifone:
Glad to see her running again !!!!!!!!!
fund razor
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Wrinkleface
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Congratz Bubba!!:sifone:
DonziGirl
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I hold his feet to make sure he can get back out
Tony's great at wiggling around the engines.Attachments
PatriYacht
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Congrats Tony. Don't worry about the temps unless you get condensation in the oil. Merc put 140 thermostats in all of their old carb engines. 200 is also fine for oil temp at cruise.
PatriYacht
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Yea, that's enough to p... you off. Take them off and send them back for a refund. Actually, I'm not using mine anymore either.
I have been told that either -8 or -10 JIC/AN will thread into the 45 degree SAE fittings. You may want to confirm. Other than that, nicks or burs on the faces make the fittings useless. If they're o-ring swivels, replace them. I've never trusted them- at least not the aluminum hiotrod stuff. If you need them, get the all-stainless Aeroquip one's. When you see the price, you'll probably find a way to live without them.
You shouldn't have any issue getting the temps up there, but you're going to have to have the engines spinning fairly hard to get the oil temp up. If they're plumbed correctly and functioning properly, the t-stats divert oil from the cooler until the temp rises. With no cooler, the temp should come up pretty quickly.
Geronimo36
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Regardless of having an oil thermostat system in place, if the engine isn't making combustion temperature the oil temp will cool down lower than 200 degrees. The systems that bypass the oil cooler rather than the water tend to keep the oil warmer but even then if you're just idling for a while you wont make that much temp.
Geronimo36
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Tell me about it! My buddy was looking to purchase some -12 from Mc Master and they wanted something like $50 a fitting.
About your oil leak, -8 SAE (45 degree) and -8 JIC (37 degree) are the same diameter and thread pitch. It's normal practice to use combinations of these fittings together on lower pressure applications such as engine oil. I think the difference in degree may help seal, however you lose surface area so watch out for nicks. Since both engines have the same problem I would look to see if one of the nuts on a female fitting was bottoming on the threads or body of the male fitting and not allowing the seat to contact. Not all brands of fittings are compatible. You could check this by trying to rotate the hose after the fitting is tightened, you shouldn't be able to.
Really nice looking 28 I'd like to see more of it. Years ago I almost bought one myself, had TRS' and 300 Tempest's. Good luck.
Really nice looking 28 I'd like to see more of it. Years ago I almost bought one myself, had TRS' and 300 Tempest's. Good luck.
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Tony
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Sector, welcome to Serious, being from Batavia, you gotta know Birdog. Theres a few more pics of what Ive done to the pig here: http://www.seriousoffshore.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5779
Back to theese oil T stats, does anybody here know the exact design of the Hardin units? I vaguely remember looking inside the ports months ago before I installed them and wondering just how in the heck it sealed off the oil flow to the cooler. Do theese things actually block 100% of oil flow to the cooler until desired temp is reached, or just some of it? And route 100% of oil through the cooler after the oil temp rises above 212?
Back to theese oil T stats, does anybody here know the exact design of the Hardin units? I vaguely remember looking inside the ports months ago before I installed them and wondering just how in the heck it sealed off the oil flow to the cooler. Do theese things actually block 100% of oil flow to the cooler until desired temp is reached, or just some of it? And route 100% of oil through the cooler after the oil temp rises above 212?
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