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In Response To: We had same problem with a volvo 2003T and ()
() Teh salt water puomp on our 2003T feed first to teh oil cooler, a tiny heat exchanger buried behind the main salt/fresh water heat exchanger.
The cooler is only about 2" diameter, with a dozen tubes. You can take the front end off if you first remove the alternator. I found a piece of insulating tape about 1" long blocking half the tubes. Also parts of a raw water impelleer that had disitegrated. If you ever have the raw water impeller fail, you will find the pieces partially plugging your oil cooler, and also reducing the flow of raw water through the system.'
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- Anyone know how "sensitive" the raw water circuit on a diesel can be to flow restriction, i.e., hose diameter, bends....
- Sorry, not "circuit", I mean "system"
- Cumulative effects....
- Perhaps the pump is marginal...
- Advice I got today from Volvo Penta suggested the possiblity of marginal R/W pump performance
- reply
- Those pumps are very sensitive to the size of the housing
- By chance a Volvo shop yesterday referred me to a specialty marine pump shop in town --they said the same thing
- Don't spend too much evaluating the raw water pump, as a new one is only $250
- Hi all--here are the results of my two "bucket tests" yesterday to check raw water flow from the engine: seems low
- Volvo Penta just called and gave me these Volvo 2030 29HP engine specs for raw water flow
- Raw water cooling
- Good idea...once I get my pump tested, and if flow is to spec, then that would point to an air leak somewhere, making
- This has been informative Jud.
- Another piece to this puzzle, that confuses it even more, is that Jabsco pumps says that flow rate for an engine like
- It would be related to heat exchanger size Jud.
- Probably, Tom --but you'd think it would scale down proportionally
- No need to measure in 2 places!
- I don't think this is a valid assumption.
- Another Volvo shop told me today there is a cam in the pump that can definitely wear down, reducing pump output...
- If you really think it is the raw water pump, then a buy a new one.
- Additional experience (Raw water pump)
- Another Volvo shop told me today there is a cam in the pump that can definitely wear down, reducing pump output...
- I don't think this is a valid assumption.
- No need to measure in 2 places!
- Probably, Tom --but you'd think it would scale down proportionally
- It would be related to heat exchanger size Jud.
- Another piece to this puzzle, that confuses it even more, is that Jabsco pumps says that flow rate for an engine like
- This has been informative Jud.
- Good idea...once I get my pump tested, and if flow is to spec, then that would point to an air leak somewhere, making
- Anyone ever heard of a raw water flow meter/alarm, like this one?
- Raw water cooling
- Volvo Penta just called and gave me these Volvo 2030 29HP engine specs for raw water flow
- Don't spend too much evaluating the raw water pump, as a new one is only $250
- By chance a Volvo shop yesterday referred me to a specialty marine pump shop in town --they said the same thing
- Advice I got today from Volvo Penta suggested the possiblity of marginal R/W pump performance
- Overheating and hose restrictions
- Jud, my vented loop is probably 12-14 ft round trip.
- Cool, thanks for the info, Paul...useful to know. Any idea of hose inside diameter? I've got 1/2", same as piping on
- Cool, thanks for the info, Paul...useful to know. Any idea of hose inside diameter? I've got 1/2", same as piping on
- We had same problem with a volvo 2003T and
- Sorry, not "circuit", I mean "system"