02-20-2003, 06:54 PM
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] Is your motor two stroke or four? My new boat has a four stroke motor and the water pump is thermostat controlled. I noticed that it would take upto five minutes before the water stream would start and became alarmed that something was wrong. The guys I bought the boat from told me with a thermostat, the colder the motor and the colder the water, the longer it will take for the stream to start. That explains why it worked fine until I started using this winter in water like Bear Lake (33 degrees) and Strawberry (just before ice up-32 degrees). I just let it idle until it warms the water enough to open the thermosat before I take off.
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] Is your motor two stroke or four? My new boat has a four stroke motor and the water pump is thermostat controlled. I noticed that it would take upto five minutes before the water stream would start and became alarmed that something was wrong. The guys I bought the boat from told me with a thermostat, the colder the motor and the colder the water, the longer it will take for the stream to start. That explains why it worked fine until I started using this winter in water like Bear Lake (33 degrees) and Strawberry (just before ice up-32 degrees). I just let it idle until it warms the water enough to open the thermosat before I take off.[signature]