How to Flush a Boat Engine Maintenance Tips

"Hi I'm Albert Hedgepeth with Expert Village. Today we are going to talk a little bit about boat maintenance. Whenever you pull a boat out of water; especially if it's been in salt water for awhile, with inboard engines and outboard engines you are going to want to flush the interior components of that engine just to make sure there is not rust, no oxidation. That's just going to give the boat a longer lifetime and help the engine run more smoothly throughout all the seasons that you are using it. One of the easiest ways to flush an engine is to use one of these rabbit ear cuffs. What you do with these guys is you actually stick it over the air intake on the out drive itself, covering both the air intake panels. Once you do that you go ahead and hook a hose up to it and run fresh water through it. Now, if you've just had the boat in the water the easiest way to tell when the engine is flushed is by tilting the engine all the way down once it's out of the water and hooking the ear muff up running water through it through a hose which connects right to the side and then you crank the engine up. The easiest way to tell that the engine has been flushed is whenever the water starts to come out cool. You will see water come out the air vent holes where normally, through normal running procedures the engine is running water through the engine to keep itself cool. Once that water is actually coming out cold you know you've flushed the engine cleanly."