This is the engine after a complete rebuild of the cooling system.


If you spend a lot of your sailing in relative shallow waters the cooling pipes of any engine can silt up. My Perkins 4.236 finally told me it was clogged up by refusing to run at normal revs and lacked the normal power this big engine has. This long article explains how the whole cooling system was dismantled, cleaned and replaced, to completely restore the power of my old engine. If your engine lacks power and tends to overheat, read this article and fix it yourself.

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