Anyone seen this done before
Submitted by eziliving on Fri, 2020-10-30 18:40
Anyone seen this before? I figure it's to force water through the motor?
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SpotHound
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Nope
Nope, should have a plastic screen that broke, so they put that on.
eziliving
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its on both sides and teh
its on both sides and teh screws are pretty tight. need a bit of force to remove them.
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sstevee
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I'm pretty sure that should
I'm pretty sure that should be the intake for the water pump... if that's the case you definitely don't want it blanked off!!
piston broke
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I would say
the water pump is pretty stuffed and that forces the water in at speed.
meglodon
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Hmmm
Interesting to say the least.
dmck
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plate is engraved...
If you enlarge the pic, the plate has 'TOP' stamped on it. The plate seems to be flush with the motor and not 'proud' to catch water.
squidvicious1
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If you can get a picture of
If you can get a picture of the front, might be a custom cutout on the front for Running in skinny water. Yanks do it on the flats skiffs. That plate would stop the water running straight out the side.
dodgy
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It's a high speed water
It's a high speed water pickup and they were fitted as a merc option on some engines. See them mostly on performance hulls that run fast with jacking plates.
Don't really need them on your Reefy. Maybe that engine was on a bass style boat before.
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eziliving
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cheers Dodgy i thought it
cheers Dodgy i thought it was for forcing water through the motor. not my boat but my mates. its on a 225 mecury 2 bannga on a 6.0mtr swifty. the thing would absolutely piss
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SwiftySportsman
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I recently sold a Swifty
I recently sold a Swifty with a 225HP Mercury fitted with those. It came off a dealers Speedboat, Dodgy is on the money.
Hmm, same one?
I wonder how that project is going?
It used to absolutely fly with a Johnson Gt150