High temp alarm

csrf · 10-23-2009, 12:18 AM

Rode my FXHO for about an hour today. At the launch ramp drove FXHO onto trailer. There was some debris by the area at the ramp. When flushing the temperature alarm came on. It flushes for a few minutes then the alarm comes on . I noticed some seaweed like grass wrap around the impeller shaft.
My question is there a way to back flush?

Tybee 100 · 10-23-2009, 01:02 AM

Are you using the hose attachment in the hull to flush with? If so, wrap some vice-grip pliers with duct tape so as to not cut or hurt the hose. At the tee where the water goes towards the engine, clamp that supply off. WITHOUT RUNNING THE ENGINE, turn the water pressure up as high as you can get it and note if anything is coming out of your pump. If its lodged in there, you might have to remove the four bolts holding it to the pump and flush it while picking the crap out. Most likely it was forced in at very high pressure!

csrf · 10-23-2009, 01:34 AM

Thanks for the reply. I have to wait until Saturday. What about taking it back down in the water and try blowing it out by riding it?

Tybee 100 · 10-23-2009, 01:36 AM

By doing that you take the chance of BLOWING that stuff into the engine and lodging the crap into the thermostat or worse.