Re: Strainer air lock
Ryan Meador
We've experienced something like this. For us, the problem was air leaking into the low pressure (suction) side of the system, not the high pressure side. The gasket on the raw water strainer was not sealing well. We fixed it by greasing it well with silicone grease and tightening it down. Really we probably need to replace the gasket (add it to the todo list). The problem seems to get worse when the inflow is restricted, so you might want to check the strainer and thru-hull for barnacles and that sort of thing. I doubt the hose you added to the anti-siphon valve is the cause. Your description of what you did is almost exactly what the Amel setup is. If water isn't flowing out, it's probably because water isn't flowing through your engine. Ryan and Kelly
SM 233 Iteration Boston, MA, USA
On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 7:38 PM Patrick McAneny via Groups.Io <sailw32=aol.com@groups.io> wrote: Sailing back from Bermuda last spring , my engine would shut down and I discovered that there was no water in my strainer ,thus the engine had no water and shut down. We were sailing in only moderate to strong conditions ,but never heeled beyond 20 degrees. When I opened the strainer lid water would flow to the top, and I could motor once again. This same thing happened repeatedly ,and had never happened prior to this trip. I made a change to the cooling system in Bermuda, and I want to know if this may have caused this air lock .
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