She's alive!-sweet smelling 225 2 stroke!

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At an idle or on the hose espescially water pressure will be low(in the water should be roughly 8 or so I believe and on a hose 1-3). The engine will run warm to hot at idle(about 160-170, but will cool down after about 3K RPM's. I'm pretty sure that engine uses water pressure to bypass the stats at a certain RPM to allow the engine to run cool under load. Also the bypass hose hooks up to a pop off valve, and if it bleeds off pressure it won't allow the stats to be bypassed and can cause overheating.

[nepatsfanatic]

nice one TF, very grateful, I spent a little more time with the manual and it gives a good picture of where the cooling passages run. I'm gonna install the pump kit and new pop off valve and flush everything out before putting her into action.

I see you run a 225, how do you like it?, I'm guessing it's a screamer!, any pics or video?

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Originally Posted by nepatsfanatic

nice one TF, very grateful, I spent a little more time with the manual and it gives a good picture of where the cooling passages run. I'm gonna install the pump kit and new pop off valve and flush everything out before putting her into action.

I see you run a 225, how do you like it?, I'm guessing it's a screamer!, any pics or video?

Yep I've got my 225 mounted on my 20 foot HYDRA-SPORTS and she runs pretty good. Then again mine is ported, bored 40 over, decked heads, and carbon fiber reeds, so she's a bit more potent than a regular 225. My boat weighs almost a 1k pounds more than a V-20, but I can still hit 53 or so with a moderate load and half a tank of fuel and 46-48 FULLY loaded down. I would also put new stats in it while you have it apart. It can't hurt and yopu're already in there, so might as well do em.