Attach Water PSI Gauge Hose

[aquamusic]

Where is the best place on the engine to attach the water pressure gauge hose. 2004 Vmax V150TLRC

[boscoe99]

[amahaork]

utterly useless feature. follow motor maintenance schedule and pressure always will be good.

[boscoe99]

utterly useless feature. follow motor maintenance schedule and pressure always will be good.

Put down the bong and push your chair away from the keyboard.

Have you never heard of a water pump failing to do its job between service intervals? Some boat in sand, mud and muck and the cooling system suffers.

Those that use a pressure gauge can get more miles out of their impeller. By monitoring the output via a pressure gauge. I could get three or so seasons on an impeller before the pressure would start to fall off. I then knew it was time to change the impeller.

[99yam40]

I picked up some seaweed once that plugged off the intake, when the over heat horn went off I shut down the motor and tilted it up to clean off the seaweed.
set it back down and fired it up, but no water flow at idle, but did get some at high rpm.
once I got back home, I pulled the pump and the impellor had melted.
if you have a pressure gauge you need to keep and eye on it or set up an alarm to make you look.
if I had looked at the tell tail often enough maybe I would not have had that melted impellor problem

[aquamusic]

Thanks boscoe99. Is this the port? Do you know what the thread size is?

[boscoe99]

That is the port.

[amahaork]

be extremely, super extremely, careful removing the plug. very little thread on aluminum block, and plug is steel. and corrosion is possible. if you cannot remove it with minimal torque applied, then abandon it.

[aquamusic]

Thank you everyone.

[boscoe99]

be extremely, super extremely, careful removing the plug. very little thread on aluminum block, and plug is steel. and corrosion is possible. if you cannot remove it with minimal torque applied, then abandon it.

Does it seem as if your sky is failing every day when you step outside?

[panasonic]

be extremely, super extremely, careful removing the plug. very little thread on aluminum block, and plug is steel. and corrosion is possible. if you cannot remove it with minimal torque applied, then abandon it.

I got to agree with you on that...especially on a 20 year old engine. A little heat applied right on the head of that plug with a micro torch might be in order.

[aquamusic]

be extremely, super extremely, careful removing the plug. very little thread on aluminum block, and plug is steel. and corrosion is possible. if you cannot remove it with minimal torque applied, then abandon it.

never been in salt water, but good to have a heads-up.

[boscoe99]

On my brand new F200 I had to apply a tremendous amount of torque to remove the plug. I believe some sort of sealant was applied. That or they just torqued the hell out of the plug to make sure it did not leak.